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13172516 No.13172516 [Reply] [Original]

Protagonists are a tool of technology.

You think they're easier to relate to, you think they're easier to self insert onto, you think it's just how stories are told. But it's all conditioning, conditioning you to believe for anything to actually happen there has to be a leader, a man at the top of the pile "saving" everyone. It makes you compliant, you don't question why your boss is the boss, "someone has to be the leader and one day it'll be me but for now it's my boss". It tricks you into thinking you're in control, that you have a chance to lead one day, that you're not just enslaved to the machine.

Everything is designed to protect the system, the machine. By confusion or misdirection, it makes sure you're never any real threat. By keeping us all focused on ourselves and our own desires it divides us and makes us pliable. Divided we fall.

>> No.13172521

>>13172516
Explain Kafka's The Trial.

>> No.13172531

>>13172516
So to clarify, the system, the machine, and technology are all the same thing? Aren't tools already inherently technology?

>> No.13172533

>>13172531
>So to clarify, the system, the machine, and technology are all the same thing?
Yes
>Aren't tools already inherently technology?
Yes but specifically their function is to support the system/machine/technology.

>> No.13172544

>>13172533
Drop the Matrix, grab a copy of Terminator and Fanged Noumena. That will help

>> No.13172557

>>13172516
>all protagonists are leaders
retard

>> No.13172564

>>13172544
I'm not implying the system is conscious.

It exists in our collective psyche, kill enough people and the system disappears. It's not an outside entity ruling over us, it's spawned from us. We gave birth to it thousands of years ago and it's only refined and improved itself since, we're our own jail wardens and the prisoners simultaneously.

>> No.13172566

>>13172557
They're the leaders of the story, they move it along, they make the world advance forward in time and without them nothing would be resolved.

>> No.13172575
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>>13172566
*blocks your path*

>> No.13172579

>>13172516
What is an unreliable Narrator/Character?

>> No.13172751

>>13172579
Cheap writing

>> No.13172817

>>13172544
>Fanged Noumena
YIKES

>> No.13173283
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>>13172564
That's where you're wrong, bucko. We're on a farm/prison and Jews are our wardens.
>pic related is the consciousness

>> No.13173367

>>13172521
The Trial is about how the main characters sees the world when inserted in a situation where the system reacts to something that he did, in this case, committing a crime, which scope and punishment is defined by the system itself. One could argue that he's innocent and wrongfully convicted/punished and see it as a representation of how the system screws over the individual, but I don't like that way of thinking because people use it to bitch about society.

In short, I take it as a purely expressionist work. For example, remember the parts in The Castle, where there are two people who look like twins when seen together, but look different when they are alone? Also, there's one part where someone from inside The Castle tells the two of them to "take care" of the protagonist because he's coming into a surrounding that is unfamiliar to him and that he might be nervous because of it.