#it's hard NOT to think of money/the lack thereof as the main cause of vash's issues w/humans | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

agnesandhilda · 2 years ago

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smth interesting abt trigun is how SO many of the villains' motivations (at least initially) are money/scarcity-based. which makes sense since the protagonist is being hunted for a bounty but to me it sends this message that all this conflict is ultimately preventable. if people weren't desperate and violence weren't profitable none of this would be happening

#bolo liveblogs #not to go all ''the real villain was capitalism'' like some kind of video essayist but #it's hard NOT to think of money/the lack thereof as the main cause of vash's issues w/humans #since it's shown multiple times that ppl who are otherwise good and who even *like* vash will turn on him #bc they do truly need his bounty and it just is what it is #''scarcity'' here works either in the capitalism sense or literally in that gunsmoke is dependent on plants #to create a livable world and plants aren't a renewable resource #so the whole planet's living on borrowed time essentially #though the capitalist scarcity/scarcity of plants do overlap a lot

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