[Arm-netbook] Totally derailed topic

[Bill Kontos]

That anime sounds intriguing I will check it out.
On Apr 25, 2017 1:54 PM, "John Luke Gibson" <eaterjolly at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/25/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:21 AM, John Luke Gibson <eaterjolly at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Well the problem with that truism unfortunately is that in this
> >> situation that particular use of the word "problems" is tooo abstract.
> >> Ultimately, what that could mean is too many different things. When a
> >> system's components are damaging each other simultaneously, who gets
> >> to decide which one's the problem?
> >
> >  one man's "terrorist" is another man's "freedom fighter"... and the
> > West *might* actually be decadent after all...
>
> Exactly!..
> This whole conversation can't get me to stop thinking about the anime
> "Terror in Resonance" or the american tv show "the pretender" off of
> which that anime is based. Main protagonists were terrorists (and
> freedom fighters) in every possible sense except ironically they
> refused to kill (anyone) and methodically planned things so they
> didn't have to, in addition their NSA-antagonist counterparts try to
> foil them by either attempting to force them into a situation where
> the only obvious way out is through taking an innocent life forcing
> them to be especially clever or overtly threatening innocent lives to
> get the "terrorists" to negotiate with them.
>
> It's kinda a subversion of the real life and movie stereotypes of
> "terrorists", and somehow this all couldn't stop throbbing the memory
> of those two shows. I'm not sure why actually, it's kinda ironic that
> Lyberta would remind me of that xD
>
> > l.
> >
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