anyway, my point was, if i remember correctly from the ongoing discussion, was that Seele's and even Gendo's plan was to forcibly achieve global human unification (i think i remember someone, possibly me probably not me, saying it's closer to the jain or hindu version of pure bliss whatever) [or, to make it more christian gnostic, joining with the godhead and bypassing nasty ol' demiurge) using rei/lilith/kaworu/eva-01/apparently a giant pendulum clock in the prime minister's office/my sweet aunt fannie as the catalyst for third impact.
so: it seems that the point anno/gainax/my sweet aunt fannie were trying to make was that we've all got the hedgehog's dillemma, not just shinji--intimacy hurts, seperation hurts, nineties college pop was absolutely spot on. the only cure was to immanitize the eschaton.
urm.
now bringing this all back to our hero doug: Is this a goal that doug SHOULD thwart? if so why? if not, why not?
I suppose this is the inevitable collision between east/west sensibilities (though it's putting it pretty simply and, ironically, in a manichean context) about individualism and the basic nature of the world (ie: not perfect but okay vs. like the toilet in trainspotting only worse and with no drugs to be found).
-murmur
so: it seems that the point anno/gainax/my sweet aunt fannie were trying to make was that we've all got the hedgehog's dillemma, not just shinji--intimacy hurts, seperation hurts, nineties college pop was absolutely spot on. the only cure was to immanitize the eschaton.
urm.
now bringing this all back to our hero doug: Is this a goal that doug SHOULD thwart? if so why? if not, why not?
I suppose this is the inevitable collision between east/west sensibilities (though it's putting it pretty simply and, ironically, in a manichean context) about individualism and the basic nature of the world (ie: not perfect but okay vs. like the toilet in trainspotting only worse and with no drugs to be found).
-murmur