The hungry ghost comparison captures something really precise about how the online persona outlives itself. That whole section about creating an egregore through posting feels weirdly familar, like when I spent way too much time on forums in college and started having this unsettling feeling that the version of me people responded to had nothing to do with who I actually was. The internet-as-hellscape framing through Buddhist conditonality is sharp, especially the point about the Wired being beneath existence rather than above it. Makes me think about how many people treat their online identity as aspirational when it's maybe more accurately described as a shadow version.
The mocking, knowing laughter of "Present Day, Present Time (HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHH)" was seared into my head by about episode 2, its been with me since I watched in Pre-Trump times. You're spot on in pointing out how The Wired lurks beneath their/our reality. Not Full 40k gnawing parasitism of the Warp, more the realm of the Hyde to the everyday Jekyll. The Egregore comparison for Wired Lain reminds me of the observation that personas can take on an Egregoric character; that certain media or e-personalities can lose themselves in who they're supposed to be over who they are. Good to know suicide is well out of the question; it'd be a shame to lose these consciousness streams prematurely.
I think it's easy to feel bleak about social media and the internet when everybody else is so invested into it. Most of us will be forgotten. Discourse is insubstantial. Politics, and competition for that matter, are for losers. And I am ok with that.
I remain here because there is no other place to talk about ideas with people, real life is a massive dead end in that regard, except for my parents. Ideas might not matter to others, or change the course of civilisation, but I take them seriously by temperament.
I'm very glad u watched lain, i watched it right before it became popular on tik tok, i was always interested in the denpa genre- the genre is called denpa bc it means electric waves and has to do with conspiracies and mainly schizos. I think lain is actually one of the more tame denpas (maybe nge too), the rest always have someone being raped and murdered for some reason. Also, Seb Jen, the guy you linked at the end, has a pfp from texhnolyze which is in the same genre as lain, though i found it a bit too long and dull, same with ergo proxy, they would be much better if they weren't so long that the studio forgot what they were doing for most of the show till the end. But somewhat similar anime to lain that i liked would be welcome to the NHK, perfect blue, and Kaiba .
>In the background noise of everyday life
Theres some irony considering the famouse literal background noise of the power lines
>I expressed similar feelings about my own online persona years and years ago, that it was essentially an egregore that I had completely decoupled from my actual self and merely possessed me in the act of posting.
Trvke... I used to have IRLS following me on social media but i just dont have anyone anymore, it's like im a completely different person online nowadays, a bit strange when i think about it
> Simply put, every “based” reason to live on the internet is no longer valid, unless you would like to run away to some small cyber-ghetto.
And here we are, in the Substack ghetto
The hungry ghost comparison captures something really precise about how the online persona outlives itself. That whole section about creating an egregore through posting feels weirdly familar, like when I spent way too much time on forums in college and started having this unsettling feeling that the version of me people responded to had nothing to do with who I actually was. The internet-as-hellscape framing through Buddhist conditonality is sharp, especially the point about the Wired being beneath existence rather than above it. Makes me think about how many people treat their online identity as aspirational when it's maybe more accurately described as a shadow version.
The mocking, knowing laughter of "Present Day, Present Time (HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHH)" was seared into my head by about episode 2, its been with me since I watched in Pre-Trump times. You're spot on in pointing out how The Wired lurks beneath their/our reality. Not Full 40k gnawing parasitism of the Warp, more the realm of the Hyde to the everyday Jekyll. The Egregore comparison for Wired Lain reminds me of the observation that personas can take on an Egregoric character; that certain media or e-personalities can lose themselves in who they're supposed to be over who they are. Good to know suicide is well out of the question; it'd be a shame to lose these consciousness streams prematurely.
Thank you for writing this.
I think it's easy to feel bleak about social media and the internet when everybody else is so invested into it. Most of us will be forgotten. Discourse is insubstantial. Politics, and competition for that matter, are for losers. And I am ok with that.
I remain here because there is no other place to talk about ideas with people, real life is a massive dead end in that regard, except for my parents. Ideas might not matter to others, or change the course of civilisation, but I take them seriously by temperament.
sad to see my nigga so pessimistic and unc'd out. hopefully things will get better. also do not leave, if not for le 9gag army then at least for me
I'm very glad u watched lain, i watched it right before it became popular on tik tok, i was always interested in the denpa genre- the genre is called denpa bc it means electric waves and has to do with conspiracies and mainly schizos. I think lain is actually one of the more tame denpas (maybe nge too), the rest always have someone being raped and murdered for some reason. Also, Seb Jen, the guy you linked at the end, has a pfp from texhnolyze which is in the same genre as lain, though i found it a bit too long and dull, same with ergo proxy, they would be much better if they weren't so long that the studio forgot what they were doing for most of the show till the end. But somewhat similar anime to lain that i liked would be welcome to the NHK, perfect blue, and Kaiba .
>In the background noise of everyday life
Theres some irony considering the famouse literal background noise of the power lines
>I expressed similar feelings about my own online persona years and years ago, that it was essentially an egregore that I had completely decoupled from my actual self and merely possessed me in the act of posting.
Trvke... I used to have IRLS following me on social media but i just dont have anyone anymore, it's like im a completely different person online nowadays, a bit strange when i think about it
Texhnolyze is dull as hell lol
yeah i had it recommended to me a by russian guy but it was boring and the ending was very weird, it reminded me of the ova about levi from AOT
this was the official website for the Lain btw: https://web.archive.org/web/20011219203315/http://www.pldc.co.jp/plag/anime/a-lain-n/index.html
Are u a seasoned anime connoisseur now?
Ehh not really
what were the first four websites to go under?
7/10? You have dogshit opinions
7/10 is solid