Samurai Jack is a political commentary on forced multiculturalism and diversity.Something occurred to me the other day. You know the villain, Aku, from Samurai Jack? I realized that Aku’s “evil” doesn’t manifest in destroying the planet, or committing wholesale genocide of the human race. No, Aku’s evil is carried out by displacing native populations with the most foreign and unusual creatures from across the universe. All of Aku’s subjects must constantly grovel and declare their appreciation for Aku’s benevolence enacted through this forced commingling of peoples. Those who so much as hesitate to be grateful to Aku are punished swiftly and severely.And what of the foreign creatures? They all exclusively fall into one of two categories; (1) refugees, or (2) crime syndicates.And what does Aku’s world look like? Sprawling metropolises where as many unusual foreign creatures are squeezed together as possible, for the purposes of generating their own personal wealth. The communities that live outside these megacities see the “evils” of Aku trickle in, either with foreign creatures settling directly in their community with Aku’s permission, or those same foreign creatures plundering remote communities under Aku’s indifference.So I pose the question: Is Aku’s designs and methods of evil a political commentary on multiculturalism and diversity? Aku is a tyrant that none can critique, and Aku’s “evil” is enacted through a false benevolence of constantly importing foreign creatures to displace natives under the guise of generosity? Is this an apt comparison? Most importantly, can Aku be adopted as a modern cultural symbol that best depicts the globalist ethos that consumes our planet?
Can you think of specific examples from the series where we see such conflicts between native interests and new foreign ones? I think it is worth observing the show takes place so far in the future that it is really just aliens being displaced by aliens at that point. Native aliens are highly fearful they will be next to be replaced, with all record of the humans they replaced being long since lost.I am going to bed, I hope someone bumps my thread and I wake up to many insightful replies :)
And a final comment to the noble samurai jack - he does not hate the aliens, but pities them. He understands they do not belong on earth, and are simply there as part of the design of Aku’s apparatus of social control. There is no social cohesion, constant racial chaos, with the only unifying factor being the constant coercion of Aku’s fury. Humans hardly exist, and the aliens that do exist seem to have one of the following perspectives: (1) gratitude to Aku for letting them settling earth, (2) fear of Aku, knowing entire species will be “canceled” for any critique or resistance, (3) appreciation for Aku’s society which legitimizes their abuses against more feeble or morally upstanding aliens, or (4) total indifference in pursuit of currency that is only of value within the context of Aku’s society. Samurai Jack doesn’t seem to hate these aliens implicitly, and even understands they are all essentially hapless goy being churned in Aku’s global melting pot. I think it is dreary to know Samurai Jack’s only possible solution to this is going back in time and changing the outcome of the battle that decimated his homeland. Once Jack’s homeland (Japan) fell, so did the rest of the Earth. Jack’s situation is dismal, and his solution is pure fantasy, rewriting history itself.
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Bump because Samurai Jack is a great show and probably one of the few non pozzed pieces of kids content created in the last 25 years
>>526302730I can't believe they got away with making him actually yellow lmao
>>526303151>I think it is dreary to know Samurai Jack’s only possible solution to this is going back in time and changing the outcome of the battle that decimated his homeland.Correct. The real world is doomed, and there will be no solution.
>>526302730aku is the demiurgejack is jesushe doesn't speak much, his sword does the talkingjesus is coming back with a sword in his mouth in the christian bible
>>526302730I am glad somebody else noticed this. The nightmare is the Aku future is one of Earth being turned into an economic zone with all the flotsam and jetsam of the universe given refuge there.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCxuH9CxHiU
>>526302792The entire show involves European Spartans with rocket spears, the last Norseman being turned into a fire giant seeking Valhalla. Virtuous people that refuse to bend being forced into never ending conflicts and displacement. All the noble gods come together hoping to prevent evil.Its red pilled as fuck.
>>526302730Bump!
>>526307395This. Inflation is so high he offers insane wealth and you realize that's just how bad he has made everything. Even as a kid, you can tell when he's offering bounties its like those 100 billion dollar Zimbabwe dollars
I guess you are right.>>526306245I still held hope but the brown tide is only raising
>>526303151>Jack’s situation is dismal, and his solution is pure fantasy, rewriting history itself.Anon you were so close.You don't need a time machine to go back to the past.
>>526307916Sneed sells feed and seed, which is completely normal. Chuck, on the other hand, sells fuck and suck.
>>526302730>>526302730>>526302730Very interesting, Anon. You might be on to something... You do know Samurai Jack, Dexter's Lab, and PowerPuff Girls are all in the same universe. Some people think that the Professor from PPG is Jack.Perhaps the downfall of humanity is what caused him to seek out creating the perfect girl.
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>>526302730Based. Just look at this scene:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E_uh6O9IXM
>>526302730delet now
>>526302730>Samurai Jack is a political commentary on forced multiculturalism and diversityUnironically so is The Nightmare Before Christmas
>>526302730BumpGood analysis
>>526302730Who made samurai jack anon you know?
Should i go down the rabbit hole on this one?fuck...
>Tartakovsky was born on January 17, 1970, in Moscow to Jewish parents.[7][8] His father worked as a dentist[9] for government officials and the Soviet Union national ice hockey team.[10] Tartakovsky felt that his father was a very strict and old-fashioned man, but they had a close relationship. His mother, Miriam, was an assistant principal at a school. He has a brother, Alexander, who is two years older and a computer consultant in Chicago.[10] Before coming to the United States, his family moved to Italy. There, Tartakovsky was first drawn to art, inspired by a neighbor's daughter. Tartakovsky later commented, "I remember, I was horrible at it. For the life of me, I couldn't draw a circle".EVERY FUCKING TIME!!!
