If your thoughts don't conform to the current thing marxist orthodoxy, you have no imagination according to cookie cutter breadtube video essayist #503
This video explains a lot about the leftoid perspective, they don't believe in borders, ethnicities or cultures or anything as concrete truths, and that these things are constructed arbitrarily rather than natural occurrences. This is where they get the delusion that Christians, Muslims, Jews and Sikhs could all just live together and sing kumbaya in a hippie circle jerk instead of kill each other.
This is doubly ironic because her definition of """fascist""" imagination being to think inside-the-box could be applied to her perspective of what a """fascist""" is considering she's pigeon holed anyone who votes the wrong way as "fascist." You can't claim to be a free thinker while acting like an ideological adherent who categorizes all people who disagree with you as a boogeyman. By her own criteria, anyone who supports a sportsball team or any competitive activity is "fascist," because sportsball and competition revolves around overcoming and defeating a team of opposing players, usually from a different place.
By her absurd definition of what "fascist" imagination is, anything objective or logical like mathematics, programming or chemistry are innately "fascist" because they don't permit for what she would deem imaginative because her idea of imagination is essentially having no rules or identity.
But of course punching holes in this personalized form of imagination by drawing it down to its logical extremity is "fascist" isn't it?
At this point, "fascism" might as well just mean "any truth which I find inconvenient."
She goes on and on about how white supremacists can't imagine black philosophers, how patriarchies can't imagine female leaders, how cis-heteronormativity (who fucking invented this word-salad bullshit anyway?) can't imagine transgender people existing and how basically any 'ists or 'ies can't fathom their opposites doing well or being in power, which is ironically a """fascist""" thing to say because she's arbitrarily limiting what a category of people she's deemed detrimental or worthless can fathom in her own
allegedly boundless and free imagination.
This appeal to lacking abstract thought is exactly the sort of othering argument racists have made about black people, and what's so ironic about that is she's not even aware of how ironic it is that she's appropriating racist rhetoric to condemn """fascists.""" This is some of the most retarded, self-unaware shit I've seen in years.
She then goes on to make dumb comparisons using Gimli from LOTR and Ariel from Little Mermaid and their black woke counterparts as an example of this "limited imagination." Those controversies were done on purpose to drum up free advertising through word of mouth. Dwarves were never described as black by Tolkien, and there's no logical reason a black dwarf would ever exist because black people get their skin pigment from sun exposure while dwarves live in sunless mines. Ariel was never black in either the source material or the 90s movie, and they only changed it to a black woman to get free publicity from the intended controversy.
I find it ironic that Zoe Bee criticizes """fascists""" for being unimaginative while failing to imagine that these changes could've been made to these characters for cynical marketing gimmicks. The idea that the """fascists""" could be the very same people pushing woke propaganda never occurs to her. So many layers of irony here.
Zoe then uses a parable about playing marbles in childhood and not understanding the rules at first and then learning them to the point the game becomes a rigid social contract, to get to where she's actually going, and she doesn't even know the term for what she's getting at, which is divergent thinking.
If you don't know what divergent thinking is, imagine the immediate aftermath of an acid trip as your day to day thinking. It's known that children, while having a low degree of working knowledge, possess a high degree of divergent thinking, and as people age, this divergent thinking shrinks as you enter adulthood.
She then asserts that imagination is at the heart of empathy, which is wrong. Having a greater degree of divergent thinking or creativity doesn't make you more compassionate. Charles Manson was a song writer, guitar player and vocalist, yet he murdered people.
Finally I've come to my final irony, that Zoe bleats on and on about imagination and out-of-the-box thinking while keeping all this rhetoric confined in the constraints of Marxist rhetoric and understanding.
It's all so tiresome.
