User blog comment:Berserkchart486/Warring States Fanon Canon/@comment-6673974-20141225023253/@comment-13970942-20141227001021

I am seriously getting sick of the anti-intellectual, uncreative mindset that people try to dominate discussions like this with. Someone says they don't understand why the moon would effect jutsu. I explain it. Someone tries to tell me my ideas aren't canon because kishimoto didn't publish a 5000 word explanation of how he has heavily borrowed from many cultural mythological traditions. Any kind of in-depth examination of his art (like the numerous accounts of sun/moon imagery), or the context of the names of jutsu, or the handseals is scoffed at... people, do some freaking research on your own! This half-assed one-sided type of "discussion" just annoys and tires me. If you can't be bothered to have any ideas or take an interest in the subject material, why are you even posting about it in the first place? You want naruto to just be a meaningless, depthless cartoon with no subtext or symbolism? No one is stopping you. But unless you have some ideas of your own to discuss, some kind of substantial or innovative take on the subject... I don't care about hearing or reading what you have to say.

Anti-intellectualism sucks.