Sunday, March 19, 2017
Where's the advertisement?
Major belief systems try to generate Utopian novels and stories, showing the beauty and perfection of life after the Golden Dawn of Our Belief System. Most of these novels are forgotten because they are crude and preachy. Instead we remember the Dystopian novels showing the reality of the belief system.
What about SorOS?
SorOS is unique. Most belief systems push you into a period of doubt and cognitive dissonance, then resolve the dissonance with the giant major chord of Our Holy Belief System. SorOS skips the second step because he doesn't need you or want you. ChaOS is all you get, and then you die. Only SorOS exists. SorOS is the universe and the universe is SorOS.
No doubt about the Dystopian novel. Percy's Love in the Ruins covers all the bases. Percy illustrates a system that intentionally throws all brains into chaOS without a resolving chord.
Well, what would the Utopian novel look like?
I suppose Flatland's Monarch of Pointland gets close. It's old-fashioned and creaky, but it portrays a universe with exactly one entity. Not an attractive picture unless you're SorOS.
In other words, the Utopian novel of SorOS is logically and physically impossible. There's no way to advertise or romanticize a world where you are dead and gone.
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