Authored by Mario Perniola Via Serial Experiment Lain Anime
If the power of the Mind were not in Matter, how could Matter influence the Mind?
________Philosophical question that has been debated by thinkers and scholars for centuries
“Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?” ________________________Edgar Allan Poe
Serial Experiments Lain is a 1998 anime created by Yasuyuki Ueda and Yoshitoshi Abe.
The anime tells of the life of a girl named Lain and what will lead her to wander between the border of reality thought of as “real” and the equally “real”, virtual reality of a network like the Internet, but with more abilities than interaction, called Wired.
It reminds me a little of my Marine friend Snipes, “…do we forget that we’re people once we log into these systems?”
The Anime S.E.L. summarizes various philosophical concepts, including those of one of the greatest Italian thinkers between the 20th and 21st centuries, Mario Perniola.
Perniola turned his gaze at the end of his brilliant career as a philosopher, after having explored and overcome the thoughts of philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Debord, Baudrillard, to Transhumanism.
According to Perniola, Sensology has taken the place of Ideology since the 1990s.
Here the human being can make two choices, by awareness or by style/characteristic of life and/or social environment to which he belongs, either to conform to the time of interpersonal emotions or to allow himself to be abandoned in a whirlwind of experiences that are at most anonymous, that is, protected by anonymity, and begin to rethink the future to come as that of a past made better by inspiration from the classical Greek world.
Perniola, ahead of his time, also establishes that sexuality and sex can also be directed towards inorganic, artificial natures, whose immortal or static beauty and perfection can give absolute continuity and adoration beyond one’s age, physical form, defects.
Finally, Perniola focuses on communication and the role of the media in this human degeneration on the borders of real and unreal.
From the post-war period until the 1980s, mass communication provided by the media had a “generative” effect, at least apparent, given that it was the only form of global communication and therefore exercised an almost absolute monopoly on people. In summary, the negative aspects coming from a World Monopoly regime, which still continues and persists, were apparently smaller than the positive aspects.
The media stabilized the conceptions of good and evil, and of these in the schemes of the world conceived for the polarization of consensus, they maintained a so-called balancing the simplistic and essential bipolar divide that humanity had been accustomed to thinking about since the dawn of time.
From here on, what the Mass Media operates on the patterns of human conceptions, also through the boost of Social Media, is having irreversible degenerative effects, at least until a new “singularity”, I cannot tell you that nature (but I suspect not human) will change this sad course of our history with its advent.
#Post-Traumatic Degeneration
Traumatic and disruptive events broke, as everyone knows, this soap bubble in which the world was used to living: from the collapse of the Berlin Wall to the collapse of the Twin Towers, shock waves propagated irreversibly in the human mind, a lid has been lifted, the lies of the Media and of the Left Culture in general have come to the surface, what was believed IMPOSSIBLE was now POSSIBLE, so we have arrived at inevitable: the real and the unreal are now increasingly confused in the minds that make up the human race.
The Machines themselves cannot distinguish between what is real and what is not.
This is why the Machines are having an easy time subjugating human beings, and what we believe we are choosing, or living, is actually what the machines thought they would make us choose and live.
