dontatmeimseriously:

Something like two weeks MONTHS ago @ericbroflovski asked me how I personally interpreted Kyle’s ~Moral Character~, and I wrote so many words that I figured it was a waste not to clean them up and organize it into a formal meta post. Full credits to gina/sweeticing, whose input helped refine these thoughts, & who I definitely quote at least once down here.

*rolls up my fucking sleeves, cracks open the whiskey and eats some grapes* Okay,  who’s ready to get Extremely Pretentious and take South Park WAY too seriously™. 

1. PHILOSOPHICAL IDEALISM AND STRUCTURE

So, Kyle is often referred to as an “idealist” in the sense that he believes, ultimately, that humanity is capable of rising above the ugly aspects of its nature and is drawn back to this belief again and again despite being continuously disappointed. But I’d go further than the commonly understood definition and argue that Kyle is a Idealist character in the (boring) Philosophical (jargon) sense of the word as well, which is to say that his default view of the world is actually a lot more on the “spiritual” end of metaphysics than you might expect from a character who often gets pinned as “the logical one”.

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