Alright may as well talk about it, the recent Archcast brought this to light but everything from trans pushes to how people apply social media to the real world this is something that's been on my mind a lot.
We should have in our heads a clear distinction between what is fiction and what is reality. Reality is the empirical, from our senses, experience and anaylsis of the environment. Fiction is the opposite, it be based on aspects of reality but isn't required and should have little to no consequences on reality.
We've always had issues with the two with superstitions and mysticism but usually they were either because of lack of knowledge or to remember real world dangers (a tale of a monster attacking if you build there is a warning tsunamis hit this area)
But now it's gone nuts. We have a media encouraging delusions on sex, right and left saying drawings are immoral yet the left say that teaching kids about sex positions is fine and that a woman can beat up a man twice her size.
If I were to pin point when the acceleration pedal was pushed down on this, I'd say it's when normies hit the Internet. They were used to every communication being with an actual person that when they got on the Internet, they didn't understand the etiquette that you can be whatever you want here. They have never caught onto that distinction and it's why we see so many pushes to remove anonymity.
Then there's the lolicon 'debate', it's more a canary in the coal mine for us all than a hill not to die on. Look at everything that happened to it first, payment processors refusing service, refusal to allow content despite meeting tos, criminalisation in some countries of a drawing. This started with fictional content but has bled so easily into speech laws, the fictional was the thin edge of the wedge to then target the real.
I'll stop here to not go too long tldr; The West at large has lost a lot of it's ability to tell fiction from reality and it's led to the mass adoptions of delusions along with using fictional content to target the real world
Very true and I'll be honest I was trying to simplify it too much to avoid a bigger essay
That definition more applies to fiction created through drawings or literature that doesn't involve real people or events. It's the difference between Harry Potter and a film about Houdini
There is a massive difference between the two and unfortunately especially with anime and manga, there's been many attempts to conflate the two. Then we get to loli and I think I get more frustrated than anything when people compare that to actual CP as it seems a lot easier to create your hyper-reality with actual people (actors) than it is with a drawn picture or cartoon.
Leftists finally realized to get complete control they needed to put their messaging into pure fantasy fiction too. There can be no escapism without bending a knee.
Which is why they start with loli content through the payment processors, they expand it from there to anime and manga by saying 'these characters are clearly designed to look underage, you must stop working with these businesses!'
They unfortunately are having limited success (I'd like no success and a fuck you) as I can see on some streaming sites censorship but then again there's a lot of loli content so hard to gauge. Manga though seems a complete failure for them.