Since at least 2019 the United Nations has tried to justify banning anime and manga due to what they consider to be potentially obscene depictions of sexual material related to children. This has failed miserably in the US, Japan, and Australia. In Texas a new bill seeks to do the same, though Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition will likely rule it to be unconstitutional regardless. It’s strange that a product like anime or manga, admittedly open for interpretation - the characters are often part cat or animal, are hyper exaggerated, or are based on kawaii culture - would be targeted instead of actual pornography or actual sex trafficking operations. At least in terms of the publicity and priority. Perhaps the priority is based on something else, like certain groups claiming that such content, including game versions, promotes racial homogeneity and marriage norms. And there it is! While the United States admits it has the ability to “manipulate time and space,” the country still can’t seem to pick up trash, clean subways, build high speed transportation, or fix infrastructure, let alone create anything new. In fact, the implication of scientific-fiction technology from the White House Science adviser might explain where the trillions of missing US dollars go. The thing is the United States maintains its power in the world through fear of war and economics, and by banning and censoring the outside, like China does. The country has lost any moral high ground and certainly any real essence of culture. Perhaps that’s why anime and manga are growing so rapidly in the United States. It’s something unique, different, fresh, and certainly not politically correct. Once again, priorities, because instead of building better cars, trains, infrastructure or even good entertainment, the country sabotages all of that and wastes its money on weapons and war. Even the Internet and GPS, two major contributions from the USA to the world, were invented by DARPA and the DOD - for killing and control. This power, and the power of politics, like Oregon cancelling math and reading requirements for graduation, also keeps the citizens in the dark of an antiquated reality. Much of the technology the country does have doesn’t come from American minds anyways, it comes from Asia and largely from Israel. The county that gives us anime and manga, which is one of the least politically correct in the world, and one of the most conservative, also gives us QR codes, emojis, plastic that dissolves with no microplastics, tornado prediction software that is accurate, super advanced solar panels, bullet trains since 1964, hybrid cars since 1997, laptops, portable music, the novel, navigation systems, and most discs like DVD and CD. It is also a country that when there is widespread technological failure, citizens still voluntarily pay there toll fees because the money actually goes into infrastructure, and because it is a culture of honor and respect. On the other hand, the US state of California has blown through $15.7-billion and failed at constructing a high-speed rail in 2025. The original Shinkansen took only $3-billion US in the 1960s.

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