I wish the take I see most often on hollywood barbie alecto wasn’t that john chose that because he wanted a sex symbol because it’s missing out on a lot of thematic resonance about how john cannot help but return to frameworks of western imperialism and even at the moment he is seeking comfort in his childhood he ends up with one the symbols of western capitalism and how that relates to him recreating the same systems that harmed him and were destroying the world when he becomes god
#ALEXA PLAY FOREIGNERS GOD BY HOZIER #all that I’ve been taught and every word I’ve got is foreign to me #John’s experience with imperialism and how inexorably it shaped his life is so fucking important to the themes #Dilworth is a private christian boarding school funded by a charitable trust #founded by an Irishman who wanted to provide a chance for the unfortunate (read: poor) to become ‘good and useful members of society’ #the student body is almost 70% māori #only 18.5% of North Island identify as māori #do you understand what I’m saying??? #do you see how even when looking for comfort in his childhood he can’t escape it? #do you remember how that barbie belonged to his mother before him? #nothing about any of this has to do with sex #that is some real sk8er boi 'can I make it any more obvious’ bullshit #is it so much more interesting than that (via @mayasaura )