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"Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself. I’ve always had a bent towards apocalyptic fiction, and I’m beginning to understand why. I look and I see the earth in flames. Her face was nothing but red." - Joss Whedon
I'm sure that by now most of the lingering remnants of Buffy fandom have seen this post on Whedonesque. I'm sure that there is nothing new here, and that I've only lost myself in the individual freedom of PotC fandom, and forgotten about my first teacher, and my first lessons. One of the reasons AWE pleased me so much is that, simply, it reconciled a seeming conflict of interests between the two opposing philosophies in my two most beloved, influential fandoms. But that's another post completely, this post belongs to Joss.
I can't be the only person who noticed the date, May 20th, and of those people, I know I'm not the only person who knows it's significance. I think it's perfect that he chose to make social commentary, rant-y and Jossesque as it is, on that day. The above quote was what prompted me to do anything more than simply post a link in the first place... "I've always had a bent toward apocalyptic fiction," and then I'm rocketing back to realization that this isn't just some social commentary by a random guy on the internet, this is the man who created the Buffyverse. Who said, through characters, things like, "the hardest thing in this world is to live in it," "we live as the world was as it should be to show it what it can be," and the entire ideal-o-fest that was Angel season 5, this is that guy. And in that way, he has achieved his activism, because of those lessons put out, through drama, on a worldwide scale.
I know that these words won't leave livejournal, but I guess my main point was that after reading that I wish more than anything to let him know that he's more than done his part, because over the course of almost a decade, I became the sort of person who acts, who sees injustice, but also the collective beauty and good of humanity. And I know I'm not alone. It's been, as a few days ago.... three/four years... and I finally get the last part.
I'm sure that by now most of the lingering remnants of Buffy fandom have seen this post on Whedonesque. I'm sure that there is nothing new here, and that I've only lost myself in the individual freedom of PotC fandom, and forgotten about my first teacher, and my first lessons. One of the reasons AWE pleased me so much is that, simply, it reconciled a seeming conflict of interests between the two opposing philosophies in my two most beloved, influential fandoms. But that's another post completely, this post belongs to Joss.
I can't be the only person who noticed the date, May 20th, and of those people, I know I'm not the only person who knows it's significance. I think it's perfect that he chose to make social commentary, rant-y and Jossesque as it is, on that day. The above quote was what prompted me to do anything more than simply post a link in the first place... "I've always had a bent toward apocalyptic fiction," and then I'm rocketing back to realization that this isn't just some social commentary by a random guy on the internet, this is the man who created the Buffyverse. Who said, through characters, things like, "the hardest thing in this world is to live in it," "we live as the world was as it should be to show it what it can be," and the entire ideal-o-fest that was Angel season 5, this is that guy. And in that way, he has achieved his activism, because of those lessons put out, through drama, on a worldwide scale.
I know that these words won't leave livejournal, but I guess my main point was that after reading that I wish more than anything to let him know that he's more than done his part, because over the course of almost a decade, I became the sort of person who acts, who sees injustice, but also the collective beauty and good of humanity. And I know I'm not alone. It's been, as a few days ago.... three/four years... and I finally get the last part.