>>56491633This, but unironically
I thought about it very deeply and decided that pokemania is potentially the highest point of American culture and history, if not all civilization up until now.
The fact that it was a Japanese creation only further plays into the Pax Americana aspect of it and the extremes of post-war prosperity.
So many children throughout history were thrown into the meatgrinder or used as slave labor and experienced excruciating hardships throughout their lives. But if you were born in the right time and right place to print out Pokemon Snap stickers at Blockbuster, then congrats, you had one of the best childhoods of all time.
