#thats easy to say but in practice its like. u drink coca cola. u watch disney movies (or play kh). u live in a SOCIETY

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ff7r is a really good like. exploration of how capitalism effects the working class and working people. u see people complaining about their life no matter where they are or what’s going on. NO ONE’S HAPPY. everyone is obsessed with the minutae of the setting and their life---what’s on tv, the latest entertainment, what to eat, how much their job sucks and how they’re just fucking tired.

i know marx is incorrectely quoted as saying ‘religion is the opiate of the masses’ but i think nowadays the more prevalent problem is that like this unsaid aspect of modern society that so many people, older people and marginalized people especially, are just too BUSY trying to support themselves and their families (and TIRED because of it, labor is TIRING) to do anything that requires any more mental labor than bitching about it with each other, eating, fucking around, and watching the news maybe.

ff7r is really good about telling u, u will work ur fingers to the bone for an unethical corporation bc its the only employer---and they will suck u dry, they will do whatever they want with u, and u can’t really do a thing about it unless the whole corporation is taken down. if u work for them, u can’t stop them from hurting people or the planet, and u might have to actively hurt them urself. if you don’t work for them, you can’t feed ur family, u can’t have a shinra-built roof over ur head. shinra owns everything. shinra provides everything. and we see in the game, because of shinra owning and providing everything (including the military), people sometimes think they have to be THANKFUL to shinra---even in the slums, even when people are dying.

nobody knows better, and if u think u know better----you don’t have a long-term solution that appeals to everyone on paper and in practice that is better than shinra and actually applicable to the current society that doesn’t upend everyone’s life and their complacency that the system built.

i don’t consider AVALANCHE terrorists and i never will. it’s terrible people die from the bombs---but they only die from the bombs because SHINRA lets people die. like thats a plot point but its also a very hamfisted metaphor for reality and how the corporations that own every aspects of our lives could help us at any time but they don’t. capitalism consumes people, and it makes them into consumers that can never be happy with the scraps that they’re fed, and it thrives off the scarcity of those scraps and our debts and discontents. they can be tired, and complacent in evil. but that’s it. 

AVALANCHE are literal freedom fighters and it really says something about capitalism in 2020 that people look at a fuckin. JRPG. where u beat up bad guys and teenage mutant ninja turtles in the sewers, classic jrpg HERO actions.... and go ‘wow... these heroes are not heroic because they actually do something about capitalism instead of sitting around on their asses’ like. stop it. cut it out. get help lol