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Have you ever been frustrated by just... people's complete inability to check the creative syntax of their favorite works? Creators are rarely, if ever, subtle about their inspirations in any space, but it seems like when people become fans of a work their curiosity stops and ends at that work with no desire to look beyond. It's like how Trigun fans don't think about or try to look up Hellboy even though Mignola's a huge influence on Nightow, or how there are K6BD fans with no interest in wuxia, or how there are fans of Scorsese completely uninterested in Fellini.
I'm like constantly frustrated by the level of media literacy across the board in a lot of spheres but I try to just focus on my own practice. Bringing up KSBD - if someone doesn't know where the term "Chakravartin" comes from or why "Technique of Relief" is named that it certainly diminishes what they could be getting from the experience for sure - but if I get the chance to talk to someone about it while i'm going to do my best to try and help folks make those connections and foster that impulse, i'm not going to chastise anyone or despair at the state of things. What matters to me is whether I am exercising that impulse, whether I can really say i'm researching and learning and acquiring a more profound understanding consistently. As long as I can say that of myself and hold myself to that standard, it doesn't matter what others are or are not doing. But yes, I get it lol.
I hope I can educate people and learn like that.