>>37988910Regarding Greninja’s effects on the common mind, even intelligence is adversely affected by the tendency the ninja frog Pokémon have of promoting the habit of forming snap judgments, of taking for granted one's ability to hold opinions on every possible question, no matter how abstruse, and of assenting to policies inadequately understood and only superficially pondered, all in line with Greninja’s deceptive, speed at all cost, and detection at all costs matter of thinking.
We have to consider Greninja’s means of wooing its current followers- immense success with dazzling its audience; its fabulous wealth of excess parts, and the bottomless till from which she drew the subsidies she needed for its various predecessor Pokémon in its struggle for ascendancy. Dazzled by these brilliant material achievements, which the Japanese world with its vulgar American inheritances found it difficult to resist, it is perhaps not surprising that many Pokémon player, with their sense of judgement momentarily numbed, assumed that where such phenomenal success was to be found, artistic beauty and sound principles towards Life must of course accompany it.
