science fiction double feature

Prizing elegance, sweet emotions, and fantasy more than morals and truth; wallowing in fleeting romance rather than trying to give meaning to life, when who knows what’s going to happen to you anyway; ignoring virtue and conventions to cherish only the pleasures you are definitely experiencing now: this is the cocoro of rococo (a little pun in Japanese, if you please. Cororo means spirit.)

No matter how much deep thought, hard work, and agonizing effort went into coaxing out some insight, if that insight or boring, or not beautiful, it doesn’t matter. And even if something made just for laughs, if you find it pleasing, it has value. Other people’s opinions and labor do not figure into your assessment; choosing things with your own personal sense of “I like this, I don’t like that” is the ultimate individualism that sustains the very foundation of Rococo. Rococo, therefore, embodies the spirit of punk rock and anarchism more than any philosophy.