Final solutions

Avengers: Endgame
Game of Thrones 8×3: The Long Night

It’s no accident that both the Avengers movie and the much anticipated GoT episode were programmed over the same weekend, ideologically. They both delivered the same message that the masses have accepted the inevitable catastrophe of climate change and that it’s acceptable that the group most affected (killed) (initially) will be the non-white non-West. Already talked about the ideal demographic for genocide in the Avengers movie, and it’s not so dissimilar with what happens to the Dothraki and the Unsullied in the GoT episode. The former has been a stand-in for the non-West, cast with actors and extras that are phenotypically non-white, including an overabundance of sexuality and licentiousness, while the latter is mainly characterized by the absence of sexuality since they’ve been castrated. It’s interesting how the implied normalized figure is imagined between these two extremes of sexuality, which mirrors the way the West views racialized sexuality. So incest is fine as long as it’s the correct race, but I’m not interested in that here. This isn’t just entertainment. It’s both an anticipation and confirmation of how we’ve arrived to accept a (the?) solution to climate change. The West is ready to stand by and watch while the rest of the world perishes.

#2019 #May