>>2389
Thanks, I looked a little bit on the theory of forms after you mentioned it and I could get the basic idea, I still need to read more on Plato and the other guys, remembered a IRL friend who is also interested in philosophy. I heard something similar in the mgtow bubble years ago (more specifically on the topic of "waifuism", have you heard about it?)
What I could get regarding western and anime is that in a way what has been going on in the western media industry goal for de-sexualization and masculinization of female characters due to things that, of course, everybody here knows well. And with that in a way one could get a feeling that something isn't as it was before, the (mainstream) "muse" ideal that was the status quo not so long ago.
A good example is Stellar Blade ( I will hold myself from calling it a "gooner game" after reading the latest posts), I won't judge the game's quality here but we can remember the rage cries from the gaming "journalists" to this title simply because it had a pretty, idealized (in the sense of the theory of forms again) woman as the main protagonist. Other example is Atomic Hearth, for two reasons that we all know. I think that this episodes show that at least here in the West there has been a huge lack of something that we had in the past and we desperately try to get back, at least this is what I could formulate from the idea, specially regarding the idea of femininity that seems so lacking today. (with that I imagine that we could also trace a parallel with the article that you've send (nice site btw), but in a more transcendental manner of course)
>monastery
Cool, recently I moved back to a city with a big catholic influence (even on the name of the city itself), and between my last post in this thread and now I have visited the city's main cathedral a couple of times, although there are at least a couple more churches in town that I am planning to visit too, I even live near one as I can hear their bells from inside my bedroom. As
>>2395 said, the commitment for entering a monastery is big, I could only imagine it being a good place to disconnect from the modern world, I also wanted to visit one if there was a opportunity.