Just watched Evangelion, along with the alternate ending.
Frankly, I REALLY don't understand why the ever-living FUCK people are always like "OH MAH GAWD EGO DEATH IS THE BEST"
You know what? I'm getting really, really sick and tired of all of these ego-death proponents.
Yes, I will accept the fact that, at one time, we were all one, and that our original, primal form was one-ness.
But you know what? I don't understand why it's not apparent to everyone that individual, unique consciousness is an EVOLUTION, a step ABOVE singular, universal consciousness.
Also, I don't know where some of them get off thinking that it would be better if EVERYONE was forced into some sort of simultaneous, universal ego-death.
You want to know something, ego-death proponents?
I LIKE my individual consciousness. I LIKE all of the pain and the suffering and the misery that is caused because of individual consciousness, and the fact that we can't truly connect to one another because of our individual forms. Because, you know why? When we're all one, there's nothing good. In one, universal consciousness, there is no war, there is no famine, there is no disease. But in one, universal consciousness, there are no parties, no friends, no adventures.
If you want to become one with the universe again, here's a pistol. Put it against your head, and pull the trigger. Bam. No more individual consciousness for you. You'll be content and peaceful in the universe, and I'll be happy for You/I/Us because that's what You/I/Us want. But let me have my individual consciousness, because that's MY choice. The individual choice of my individual consciousness.
Do you really think that the Hedgehog's Dilemma can be solved by taking all of the hedgehogs and just turning them into one, singular, giant hedgehog?
For when there is one Hedgehog, he is just as cold as when individual hedgehogs refuse to get close to one another because of their spines.
But when the hedgehogs choose to deal with the pain, it is there that they also find the warmth they were seeking.
(Apologies to any ego-death proponents in our stock.)