#like lok politics are complete shit in terms of the message they're trying to send but is really interesting in terms of understanding

[stonerz4sokka]

im reluctant to label zaheer/the red lotus as anarchist because their views on freedom were deeply flawed but zaheer’s relationship with his airbending compared to someone like aang or just the air nomads in general is super fascinating. it makes you think just how deeply individualistic our understanding of freedom & power is which in turn is why lok portrayed a society outside of oppressive governmental systems as “chaos” and not just like...... a better world that’s achievable.

#zaheer #txt #tlok #red lotus #i have so many thoughts on like the parallels between zaheer and aang and just #how the red lotus's political views were kinda right and kinda wrong but mainly because the show #was written by white liberals who don't understand anarchism / communism at all and so they see anarchy as chaos which isnt necessarily true #like i have my critiques on anarchism but you could really tell that the writers of the show just have never met a nonwhite anarchist in #their entire life but it's also really interesting because it shows the dangers of unlimited freedom but like not in the way they were tryin #like the difference in the air nomad's fully functional communist society versus the red lotus conception of freedom from oppression boils #down to like a lack of material analysis in the red lotus's ideology #im rambling but i WILL make a more coherent post soon about my thoughts because it's just really fascinating to me how stupid #white people are and how individualism runs deep in our culture #like lok politics are complete shit in terms of the message they're trying to send but is really interesting in terms of understanding #how our culture views anything outside of the hell we live in as 'unrealistic'