Board Thread:Manga/@comment-14745711-20170528070700/@comment-32280864-20170613183956

(1) I mean, I think we can see so many conflicts and wars in SNK. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Genocide in Rwanda come to mind for instance (plus every conflicts you mentionned).

(2) I believe that Hajime Isayama emphazised more on the collective memory of civilizations, a strong sociological aspects that can be manipulated for political ends. So I think no matter the marley's regime, the critic of political elites and their manipulations of societal dymamics is still there. The complex duality between oppressed and oppressor  (good vs bad) is also presented because this is partly driven by the collective memory of people (and it's alteration).

Wars and social conflicts is a bunch of misunderstandings of other's culture, history, background, etc but also of political and economic interests and manipulation of collective thinking. And very often, there are groups that get the repercussions more badly than others.

I agree that if Marley is a democratic regime, it will strongly support the latter statement, but I think it's not the fundamental debate here. The debate seems to be on the manipulation of collective memory from elites (often for personnal interests) no matter the regime, and the oppressed/oppressor dichotomy resulting from this which brings us finally to the question of good and bad. So yeah, I look foward to discover the type of regime, but even if Isayama doesn't specified the type, the social issue remain the same and thus the following philosophical questions: is there an objective definition of good and bad? If so, what is good and what is bad?

Anyway, I thought SNK was cool and the kind of show that gives me goosebump because the characters are cool and badass, but now it gives me goosebumps because this is a well-build sociological presentation of war and social conflicts.