Bloodcurdling reactionary
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Harry Potter is steeped in reactionary ideas. People are born with gifts that make them extremely unequal. There are strict hierarchies: older students have authority over younger students, teachers over students, headmaster over teachers. Centralized bureaucratic control over education creates a cruel horror show, as demonstrated by Dolores Umbridge. Harry is essentially born into a noble family, and that has imbued him with intrinsic characteristics that make him fit to lead. Students are mandated to always be armed at school, and it is bad for an adult wizard to ever be unarmed or allow himself to be disarmed. Journalists are liars and the truth can only be found in the crazy conspiracy publishers. The story culminates with Harry taking the role of Christ in his death and resurrection.
A lot of fiction popular with shitlibs is heavily reactionary. Even Star Trek has a lot of reactionary ideas, with the officers being nobles and Captains the Lords of their respective ships.
I think that's the main way the left sells their ideas to right-wingers: they tell them that if they adopt leftist ideas they'll get to live in some high-functioning pure meritocratic hierarchy. Then in practice what we get instead is "you can't have high-school graduation requirements for English and Algebra, or assign students a 'D' or 'F' grade".
I get a kick out of the 'muh space communism' crowd. By virtue of its TV show nature, ST depicts a world where lullabies, idioms, family structures, values, and ideals have been perfectly preserved for three hundred years. It's the definition of small-c conservative.
That's how they convinced the public to open up immigration. "It will be meritocratic and we will only let in the people who deserve to come here."
Meanwhile they will let in anybody and their family who can secure a work visa for a traitorous multinational company.
The Federation only works because of the Prime Directive. If they didn't have that they'd be doing the same thing we do: constantly try to fix broken civilizations (and usually end up making them worse in the process) and import people from those civilizations who want to instantly jump ahead in time 300 years without putting in the work.
My personal conspiracy theory is that Rowling didn't actually write the books.
This is also how I feel.
Did the Earl of Oxford write these too?
Did you ever see that Simpsons episode where they write a book?.
That's how she "wrote" her books. With a team of graduate writers bound by an NDA because they'd never sell anything without the sob story of an "abused woman".
wtf I love Harry Potter now?