Narrative Warfare: The Arts Are The Eternal Frontier

This came over Twitter yesterday.

Life-sized Gundam in Yokohama is now in testing mode.pic.twitter.com/51HVoraPb7

— Catsuka (@catsuka) September 21, 2020

Yes, that's at four times actual speed--those movements are very slow in reality--but the fact remains that the full-sized and movable RX-78 Gundam model (yes, it is a model; sure, it's made of steel, but still just a model) in Yokohama, Japan is complete. That's the third Gundam full-scale official models up and running now. (The other two are a non-moving RX-78 that is now elsewhere and the Gundam Unicorn outside the Gundam Base in Tokyo.)

Yeah, it got global attention (including from dumbass bluechecks who don't know shit about Gundam, but that's neither here nor there).

It's events like this that drive popular attention towards the advancement of science and technology--the Arts drive STEM--and not the other way around. I've met more than a few current and former NASA scientists and technicians who got on that path due to Star Trek, and some others who got into their STEM field via some other form of science fiction, all of them hoping at some point or another to make what they read or saw as children into reality.

The folks who made smartphones and tablets real were some of the last to really achieve it, turning Tri-corders into reality thanks to the breakthroughs that made those widgets commercially viable, followed by the folks who perfected commercially-viable voice-controlled technology such as Alexa. ("Computer, what does Wikipedia say about Klingons?") You have to dream it before you can create it, so the first frontier to get shut down has to be the creative ones when you want to imprison and destroy a nation or a civilization.

Guess what's been going on, incrementally, with hard breaks coming in 1980 and against in 1997 before we hit Full Title Bozo Clown World in recent years?

That's right, the clear frontier of imagination in the Western world has been circumscribed and closed on with increasing frequency and severity over that time. By the time we saw SJWs swarming into the creative businesses, it was already in a moribund state and these were the bottom-feeding maggots looking to feast off the fetid flesh like something straight out of a painting depicting a Great Unclean One of Nurgle.

While there are issues in Japan regarding its creative health, those are primarily commercial ones and secondarily innate to Japan's culture at-large. The cultist insanity, such as it is, comes from its contact with Western institutions and the compromised integrity thereof. In the main, you can count on this publicity stunt to further Japanese interest in robotics and related engineering for years to come, and that includes the political will to ensure that what they come up with works as well as to protect from forces that would sabotage it.

This does, of course, bring things back to a common complaint of the Dissident Right: Conservatives do not value the Arts, and therefore the culture, yet wonder why they lose.

Yes, the Arts are incompetently taught. Yes, the Arts students are not told the business end of making a living in the Arts. Given how long this has been an issue, and how much documentation now exists about how predatory the business institutions that make their wealth from those artists are, I can only conclude that this is not accidental but rather a deliberate decision. This institutional incompetence, coupled with the increasing exposure of a webwork of wickedness wherein only those who take the ticket are guaranteed any success in the Arts (at the cost of serving the Narrative, if not their soul as well), is why I say it is deliberate malice that this is the case.

You cannot act on what you cannot conceive of, and if you cannot dream it then you cannot conceive of it yourself; someone else has to tell you. It is in the interests of our enemies to ensure that they tell us what is possible, and no one else is allowed that faculty.

Japan, for all its faults, still dreams of a better tomorrow. That's what this model's completion signifies. Sure, Bandai enjoys some good publicity and an increase in Gunpla sales--for good reason; those anniversary kits are awesome--but 20, 30, 40 years from now they'll have a mature cohort of engineers, technicians, and scientists inspired by this to point to and unless we in the West clean house we get to look forward to a repeat of the 30 Years War.

I know which future I'd prefer.

So that's why the time to conquer the culture is now, because the best time was 40 years ago but our elders biffed it so it falls to us.