Roy Greenhilt was sworn to destroy Xykon to fulfill his father's blood oath, and formed the Order of the Stick for this purpose. Take, for instance, the Angry Birds movie, which I have seen people interpret both as a far right anti-immigrant story and a leftist anti-imperial allegory. Crazy, huh Xykon is an evil sorcerer lich bent on ruling the world through control of one of the five Gates imprisoning the Snarl, a scheme he developed on the prompting of Redcloak, the Bearer of the Crimson Mantle. 2) Metaphors being only broadly similar to the original situation, might be applicable to other situations which are broadly similar but have some key differences that completely change how the audience might react to what they see as the comparison. Or to related problems of metaphor: 1) Being a metaphor and not the situation itself, there will be differences, and these differences can very much introduce implications that totally muck up the intended message. To say nothing of Imperial Japan, the Rwandan genocide, arguably the United States itself and.well, I could go on all day listing historical examples.īut yeah that is the inherent problem of metaphor. Click to expand.I mean, on the one hand I get it because of all the reasons you said.and yet at the same time it does seem like a strange sentiment to hold so strongly in a world where ISIS recently used the historical oppression of the middle east to justify creating a nightmarish theocracy with the long term goal to spread it as far and wide as possible, not to mention the CCP engaging in pretty blatant imperialism justified as anti-imperialism and dismissing all criticism of its abuses as imperialism.
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