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pochapal · 2 years ago

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associating the gold with kinzo's occultism...thinking thoughts here. thoughts that correlate to some of the more obvious darker political associations of mid 20th century western aesthetics married with certain strains of occult practice and then also considering the intersection of gold with all of these things.

#umineko liveblog #ep1 reread #only thing keeping me from saying 'oh it's nazi gold' is that there's no evidence kinzo ever dealt with the nazis #a lot of his fortune is tied in up in profiteering off the korean war via deals with occupying america #like the imagery and aesthetics are there but not the right place or time so.#i mean fascist gold is fascist gold so it could just be american gold obtained through warcrimes and little would change #but then i'm thrown again by kinzo's specific focus on european names. krauss/eva/rudolf/rosa all very germanic names #issued to children who would have been born in the tail end of ww2 #and the fact that ultimately the beatrice portrait is a painting of a white woman with a european name #and that all feels deliberate but i don't know how to reconcile the contradiction here into anything cohesive #i have a bunch of jumbled fascism shaped puzzle pieces but i can't quite fit them together

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