The Shadow world and disablity links the Clave.
This is a follow-up post to the post on real-world evil, so
we see that there was a lot wrong with the Circle and we see that there was a
lot that the older generation kept from their children about the circle and the
uprising as they didn’t want it to happen again.
Yet we know that by telling people about their history and
culture we understand that they can see that in the real world we are educated
on history to try and understand it and we now start to understand it and see
it as well. As the shadow hunters suppressed the knowledge
of the uprising and we that this could have prevented a lot of issues if they
were able to talk about it freely.
I can see the arguments for both sides around this if you
talk about it we see that people around you could help prevent it from happening
again but we see that suppressing this knowledge is a risk that backfires and
helps radicalize people and turn them into fanatics and this is an issue that
deserves its post about how the internet has turned the way we think on its
head and the way that information is controlled that the legacy media don’t control
the narrative anymore around what we are being told about the world around us.
But we also see a world where truth can be manipulated to help further people’s
causes so this is where the clave was being careful about what happened in the
uprising and we need to remember that in reading about history and philosophy
we need to understand the context of what the author was trying to say and this
can be difficult as a lot of philosophy came out of France and it was a time
when there were great power struggles and the catholic church was losing it’s
power and influence so it leads to a cultural revolution. [i]
So we need to remember this when Magnus is serious as he would
have seen the time of Angels and the role of Tessa in the clockwork war and her
ability to shapeshift. As well as the fact that she is still alive but is a Guardian
of the spiral labyrinth.
This is quite interesting
in what we see as it leads to a lot of things in the Shadow hunter’s world. We see
that Jace can also shape shift being that he has angel blood and only shapeshift
into people who are living.
However due to the influence of people like Dr. Jordan Peterson
are seeing a swing back to organized religion and involvement in “social
justice,” as its tithes originally were to help the social support for the vulnerable
in their community. As we are seeing him have a massive influence
on lost young men and he is now issuing a challenge to organized religion saying
that he can’t help everyone, but this was the historic role of the churches to
protect the vulnerable and keep the sacred just that. So we need to remember that the Nephilim are
carrying out what they consider to be a sacred duty to protect the mundane
world from the threat of demons. We do
see Jace say that to clary when they are looking for weapons in the graveyard
when they are on patrol. Jace is quite cocky when he says that there was a failure
of mundane imagination that has been doing its duty for far too long and far too
well.
Yet Tessa can shapeshift into anyone living or dead, this
is interesting in a way that we see that there is a link in the abilities as Tessa’s
Mother was a Shadow hunter and they don’t know who her father was as we see
that the other warlocks do know their demon parents, and then they know their abilities
that come from this parent. [ii]
She was also the wife of Will Herondale so this is possibly where Jace got his ability
to shapeshift as I know that in the show it was the injections that gave him
this ability but in the books, it was that he was a descendant of Will and Tessa. ( I am currently reading chain
of iron so will correct this if needed.)
However we see that we don’t know Tessa’s father, but we know what type of demon it was as it
was a greater demon. We see that she
also was accepted as a Shadow hunter because of being one as well as married to
one and having children as well.
leading me to question why the relationship with Manguns
and Alec was so controversial at the time was it because he was a “pure warlock”
or was it because of his reputation as he is known as a Lothario, but this
leads into well what do you do when you are immortal and have time on your
hands.
So if you have time on your hands and don’t need to earn an
income how do you spend your time. This is a question I will come back to with
the parallels with people with disabilities as well I have talked about this in
previous posts but if you haven’t read it. This is a bit of a recap but will put a link into
this post. ( I will have to find it as I might have accidentally archived it or
thought I have written it but still have it as a draft as it deserves its post
around how vulnerable this made this character)
Magnus another warlock who is the high warlock of Brooklyn
and immortal loses his powers to save his boyfriend’s capabilities life and
this is where things get interesting as he becomes mundane and also loses his apartment
to another warlock that was supposed to protect him, as due to politics Mangus
lost his position as the high warlock and therefore had to consult as being the
high warlock we see that he couldn’t consult as it was a political position and
therefore we see that there could be a conflict of interest in consulting. (Something that the real world could learn
from with consultants as you would be better of asking the people on the ground
what needs to change instead of asking an outside consultant, I understand that
in some cases things need to be looked
at from an outsiders perspective and that this is a good thing but generally asking
people what the need to live or to work better is good and can save companies and
people lots of money at times.)
So he received a magic transfusion from Lorenzo ray the
person who becomes the high warlock in Magnus’s place, and it makes him sick,
so the only solution is to take the magic away from him and to Magnus, his magic
is what makes him “whole.” However, the cost
to Mangus is his apartment so Lorenzo
who was supposed to protect Magnus took advantage of him and we see that this
has a lot of parallels to the disability community as well. We see that
Alec can stand up for Magnus as well but in making decisions for Mangus we do
see that it comes at a cost and this is another issue that needs to be discussed
as Magnus is an adult and can make decisions for himself and has seen centuries
of change but we see that he masks his pain about losing his position and his
magic. I have written quite in-depth about Alec masking but Magnus masks by
being the inappropriate party animal. So we see that he in the books is drunk
quite a bit of the time. As well as the inappropriate
comments, he makes about Alec as he is determined to have a relationship with
Alex however we don’t know what that would look like but we see that it turns
out when Magnus feels safe he is a big safety and try’s to help Alec as it is
his first relationship with anyone as he was so closeted even from himself.
However we know that this is something that is a bit of a variation
from the books as it shows that we are see that he has romantic feelings for
Jace and it is explored a lot more in the books than the one fight seen at the
city of bones in the first season where they rescue Melorne, and at this point
Jace is constantly choosing clary so we see that Alec really doesn’t have a
chance and that Magnus sees his chance, but I am glad that they aged up the
charcters as in the books Alec is 19 so
he is a child but this isn’t the first shadow hunter that Mangus has been involved
with however that isn’t mentioned in the show as we see that they are adults
and that Magnus was I London at the time and this would have been when he was
involved with Will Herondale, and Tessa.
So it’s not until l
Alex decides to propose to Mangus and Mangus turns up to the dinner drunk as
the warlocks would see time and social customers very differently to others and
a lack of understanding of the Shadow hunter’s ways would create cultural differences. Like the unwritten rule that you don’t drink
alcohol before 6 or you can drink on the weekends, and we see that Mangus doesn’t
have this boundary, and we see that his relationship with Alcohol isn’t great
as well and many people don’t have a great relationship with Alcohol, and it
can become a substance abuse issue very quickly.
Shadowhunters
3x14 | Alec threatens Lorenzo - YouTube
However, we see that the warlocks have a tolerance for booze,
but magus loses this tolerance when he loses his magic. However,
we see that Alec does when he realizes the pain that Mangus is in that he
decides to ask Mangus to help his mother out as she goes through her growth and
then learns to accept Magnus as part of the family.
She was excommunicated
and needed to get a job, so she buys a bookstore that was owned by a warlock we
see that most of the warlocks have a “mundane,” job. However, this is a variation
from the books where Luke the werewolf does have the bookstore. But we see that Alec keeps Magnus off his
circumstances as we see that Mangus had a massive fear of missing out and
decided to make the most of Alec’s day off. (This makes for epic tv viewing as
Mangus has to know situational awareness in this clip)
The fact that he was so powerful that he can invade even
the silent brothers and the Shadow hunters are in awe of him at times we see
that this could work both ways. In that, he isn’t always accurate in what he
can do as he was raised by the silent brothers in the books but in a variation in
the show, we see that he was raised by Asmodus his father a demon of hell. He
was used as a child in the show and we
see that Mazie was used by valentine in the same way.
However in going back to what makes Magnus whole is that we
see that he goes through trauma and becomes what the Shadow hunters call
Mundane a person who isn’t aware of the shadow world. So he
is housed at Alex’s request at the institute much to the disgust of the other
shadow hunters because worlders aren’t allowed in the instate but I will
discuss that in another post, later as I have a lot more information about this
relationship now and we see that It was a learning curve for both of them.
So the Clave is the organization that rules the Shadow
hunters and we see that there is a major influential family that makes up the
clave and these families go back centuries at times. Being the lightwoods, The Herondales,
The Bramwell’s, the Fairchild’s, and the
Blackthorne’s. These are the families that shadow real-world USA
political families as we see when Jace finds out that he is a Herondale that we
see that Clary asks about does that mean that makes you a bush of the shadow world
and it was corrected to a Kennedy as the Kennedy family have a long USA pollical
history. As well as a very deep social conscience.
We see that the clave has a very deep and warped sense of
what is right and wrong as well and we see that this is very different from
what the “Mundane’s,” consider to be right or wrong as it does depend on the
orders that they are following as we see that it wasn’t just Clary’s mother
that saw a need to get out we see that there is a lot of shadow hunters that
got out of that world or the influence of the clave.
This is a really interesting topic as now we ask the question
given what is going on in the news about the research into depression
medications and there is new research that it doesn’t help a lot of people[iii]
but I have been working with someone on this framework and we need to look at it
as it is a framework that Dr. Jordan Peterson is working with as well called
the power threat framework so who has power over you and who is a treat to you
with that power and can you change this circumstance in a way to be able to work
to develop your skills.
So essentially the shadow hunters see the warlocks as a
threat to the Shadow hunters and fail to acknowledge the threat that they used
to be too down worlders as they used to be hunted for sport and this shows me
that they forgot their history, and this history isn’t a great one at times and
we see that this isn’t a good thing as they thought Valentine was dead and that
he was no longer a threat to people but he is a threat to everyone around him.
So in linking this back to disability we see that in this
way people with disabilities do need protection but at times we see that they
are exploited by the people that are supposed to protect them and this is something that needs to change and has changed
in at least Australian law around mandatory reporting so there are people in
the community that have a duty of care to report to the NDIS Commission, or appropriate
services where required and I have put this in the footnotes as well.
Comments
Post a Comment