For all the hate Game of Thrones rightfully gets, I am going to...
Isaac Young@HariSel57511397
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Dec 02, 2024
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For all the hate Game of Thrones rightfully gets, I am going to (temporarily) bat for it a second. I don’t think the West has moved on from GOT style storytelling, and it gets at a problem modern Christians have to deal with.
A thread on a post GOT world 1/
A thread on a post GOT world 1/
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Now George R.R. Martin is absolutely a cynic, and I don’t defend his writing, but he did tap into a desire audiences have.
People are desperately seeking a response to nihilism in their lives. We live in a Post-Christian world, and people still want answers. /2
People are desperately seeking a response to nihilism in their lives. We live in a Post-Christian world, and people still want answers. /2
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Martin and his contemporaries’ solution was to toss aside Christianity and hope they could arrive at an emergent morality that was more “realistic” and pragmatic than stereotypes in media.
And the power of dealing with these irl issues did give them a lot of momentum. /3
And the power of dealing with these irl issues did give them a lot of momentum. /3
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But we all know how that song and dance ended.
However, people are still desiring an answer for nihilism—an answer that they can believe in. The Reddit midwit is not entirely wrong desiring a work of fiction that deals with the collapse of Western Christianity and modernity. /4
However, people are still desiring an answer for nihilism—an answer that they can believe in. The Reddit midwit is not entirely wrong desiring a work of fiction that deals with the collapse of Western Christianity and modernity. /4
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If Christian storytelling is to regain its footing, I do wholeheartedly believe it needs to respond to GOT’s deconstruction in a realistic way. In a way that forces people to confront it. It needs to look in the hell of modernity and provide suitable answers. /5
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“Realistic” has become cringe, but I do think the desire for realism is not entirely misplaced. It comes from a yearning for answers that people have forgotten. It comes from a desire for something to hold onto—something real. And the Rightwing should remember that. /end
