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>>14894945

>>14011091
>tfw it's a 5 hour Chapo Episode of nothing but Zizek talking and refusing to be stopped

NEON GENESIS EVANGELION
a 2019 Netflix Japanese animation.
It is widely recognized as the worlds first Japanese animation.

I put for a general inclination of all mankind, an innate and restless desire to affect change in their surroundings, that ceaseth oncely in death. This desire may be on the micro scale of personal influence or on the macro scale of the influence of society. When one is separated from their ability to affect change in their life, they become irritated or dissonant (à la learned helplessness). Now, not everyone has the capacity to affect the change they desire, or the patience to develop to the point where they are able to; yet the hunger remains. A desire without an output creates frustration and dejection with reality, and consequentially a retreat into unreality. What video games offer is a way to affect change without consequence—it creates a pseudo-reality to manipulate in lieu of the frustrating reality of their existence. A perfect example of this would be "speed-runners". If one takes but a brief glance at these "speedrunners" on Twitch, it is obvious that they are failures in reality. They substitute the achievements they were unable to attain in the IRL (often due to their slightly above average, but in no way exceptional, intelligence (110)) with an ephemeral "record" on completing a disposable piece of children's entertainment. It is essentially a masturbatory experience. What Anime and Genre-Fiction offer is an ideal type of the world they wish to affect. Plato sought the ideal form in search of truth; Manchildren seek the ideal form in escape from the truth. Rick and Morty is a world of boundless affect which can be vicariously indulged in, is an ideal form of the desire of affect placed in perfect unreality—an unreality which can never exist within this affect-voyeur's frustrating reality. The stereotyped Anime girl is manufactured to perfection beyond possible existence, so indulging in it will never draw the unsettling thought that the affect could be fulfilled in reality. The Manchild knows that his indulgences are mere pseudo-experience, which is why he seeks to shield himself from the real world so as reinforce his dissociation. It is the great curse of the dis-affected: to have infinite wants but modest means.

>>11164699
But you're always within ideology, nobody is outside it
We are all eating from the trash can

>>10137177
>Spend all my time travelling around the world giving talks and psychoanalyzing pop culture, events, and movies
>nobody but Chomsky will ever call you out on anything because anybody who has the background to actually sift through the jargon is either a charlatan or a fan anyway
Idk sounds pretty lit to me