I think to resolve the problem of "can these beings co-exist," in my own relationship with the show/ reading of the show, I'd really need to better understand 1. what the angels are, 2. what started the conflict, and 3. what the angels as a whole are doing on a symbolic level, and I can't ever figure out any of those in fine enough detail. I know there are official explanations to 1, with all the ancient aliens stuff, but that never feels satisfying to me.
Regardless, it *feels* right to say that co-existence is possible.
It makes me think of how in Greek myth, etc, seeing the true form of a god would instantly melt you. Fighting against that incontrovertible fact about the world is normal but, at best, tragic, like with Kaworu.
Dept of inappropriate laughter: when BDM’s like “Kaworu’s saying Lilin and he’s like okay we call ourselves Japanese but your way is fine too I guess.…”
lol you're so right! I hadn't thought of that. I feel like it's different to say it on a species level, since Gendo's plan is to make "man" extinct and thereby like… end death.
Yes totally! The words are the same but they argue in opposite directions. Haven’t read the book but what I’m taking from that passage is sort of that to move through life is to radically accept your eventual end and move toward it in order to encounter everything along the way. Whereas Gendo seeks a transcendent extinction to deny the possibility of death
It's an interesting book though like maybe all works of psychoanalysis of its time it is a wee bit homophobic. The first part of it is basically a very long analysis of The Little Prince and why it is both compelling and kind of annoying, and since "I find this both compelling and annoying" is how I feel about that book, well…
I think to resolve the problem of "can these beings co-exist," in my own relationship with the show/ reading of the show, I'd really need to better understand 1. what the angels are, 2. what started the conflict, and 3. what the angels as a whole are doing on a symbolic level, and I can't ever figure out any of those in fine enough detail. I know there are official explanations to 1, with all the ancient aliens stuff, but that never feels satisfying to me.
Regardless, it *feels* right to say that co-existence is possible.
It makes me think of how in Greek myth, etc, seeing the true form of a god would instantly melt you. Fighting against that incontrovertible fact about the world is normal but, at best, tragic, like with Kaworu.
Dept of inappropriate laughter: when BDM’s like “Kaworu’s saying Lilin and he’s like okay we call ourselves Japanese but your way is fine too I guess.…”
shinji is the king of "going with the flow"
Wow that Franz quote is like word for word what Gendo says in the computer virus episode, that the end goal of evolution is extinction
lol you're so right! I hadn't thought of that. I feel like it's different to say it on a species level, since Gendo's plan is to make "man" extinct and thereby like… end death.
Yes totally! The words are the same but they argue in opposite directions. Haven’t read the book but what I’m taking from that passage is sort of that to move through life is to radically accept your eventual end and move toward it in order to encounter everything along the way. Whereas Gendo seeks a transcendent extinction to deny the possibility of death
It's an interesting book though like maybe all works of psychoanalysis of its time it is a wee bit homophobic. The first part of it is basically a very long analysis of The Little Prince and why it is both compelling and kind of annoying, and since "I find this both compelling and annoying" is how I feel about that book, well…