Do the Evolution and Divide by Zero

On Reasons for Lucy's Cruelty in Elfen Lied

I do not think system is even willing to pardon her. 

And it's system's fault. 

They see her as partly a threat to contain or exterminate. Partly as a guinea pig for experiments.

It is a realization of that fact due to countless life experiences with cruel people actually made her this cruel herself.

If you pay attention they you can notice that both Kurama and that shooter guy Bando do not even treat her like a person, but rather as some sort of beast to hunt down and prey on.

She even asked Bando if it is fun to hurt her like that.

It is they and kids from orphanage who are real monsters who refuse to consider her human just because she is somewhat different.

That is the real meaning of this show. 

Lucy deserves a lot more compassion than Kurama, Bando or Kurama's old boss. They are the monsters.

Reaper's Due

 

I often talk about overpopulation problem. 

Despite what some naive and starry eyed 'moral' people want to believe, there is not enough food and other recourses on this planet to feed, clothe and house everyone.

Surely the so called Second Agricultural Revolution Green Revolution - Wikipedia allowed the world to go without major wars since WW II and its population to increase. However now we have reached the ceiling and we now experience the consequences.

High food prices, low rental availability and ever-increasing rental and housing process are all the symptoms of this.

There are too many people on this planet there is not enough stuff for everyone on it.

Therefore, someone has to die and vacate the space and resourses to the rest.

It is does not particularly matter who will die and how. However, they have to die.

In poetic terms Grim Reaper has to be paid his due.

Even one of the American Founding Father and President once said that "Tree of Liberty Must Be Refreshed With the Blood of Patriots and Tyrants"

Did Thomas Jefferson Say the Tree of Liberty Must Be Refreshed 'With the Blood of Patriots and Tyrants'? | Snopes.com 

Aztecs 

Back in the days Aztecs used to have a particular religion. 

According to their myth Nahuatl gods hold humanity in ransom and demand constant human sacrifices in order to avert end of the world.

So, Aztecs went to war to kill their enemies as a sacrifice to their gods and if they could not, they sacrificed some of their own people.

Principle was the certain number of people needed to be offered to the Grim Reaper.

When Spanish conquered Aztecs they converted them Christianity and Aztec religion now often used as an example of how cruel and primitive pagan believes can be.

However, while Aztecs gods themselves are not real. Principle behind them is.

Aztecs could not understand real reasons behind these problems: things such as overpopulation, recourse scarcity and such. However, at least their leaders and priests could understand that excessive population will end up causing problems in the long run.

When there is too many people and not enough food then everyone will starve. Life would be miserable. The longer it will continue, the worse it is going to get. In practice it will be like the End of the World as described in their myth. Life will no longer be liveable or enjoyable.

Most importantly people will die anyway. Just from starvation. The Reaper will get his due, one way or another.

Middle Age

Back in Middle Ages before Americas were discovered by Columbus, Black Death (plague) regularly ravaged the entire continent and regularly fed Grim Reaper, sparing Europeans the necessity of delivering death with their own hands.

Black Death - Wikipedia

Black Death was the phenomenon that kept the population numbers within sustainable numbers on the continent.

In fact, until development of vaccine in the 18th century mortality on the continent was high even after discovery of the Americas.

Vaccine - Wikipedia

Spanish Latin America

Nowadays Latin America is often poor and desperate. Brazilian Favellas and Venezuelan crisis are its modern realities. 

However, it was not always like that.

 

Back when Columbus Discovered Americas, it was a very rich land with untapped by European standards potential. Plenty of gold and silver as well as new unique recourses such as chocolate, cacao, tobacco and cotton.

Spanish were aware of areas of modern US and Canada, but just could not be bothered to settle there. Since up there was plain and boing and it was in the south where all the riches were.

South had gold and silver. Even crops grow better there in warm climate, and you can grow fruits that will not grow up north at all. Why bother with cold north?

And Spanish colonies of Latin America attracted lots of people who came to exploit these riches. Many stayed, their descendants, intermixed with locals and even imported Africans, are modern inhabitants.

It was so rich back them they will even bring in Africans to fully exploit it.

You can still see it in their colonial era architecture. There are not houses built by poor people. They are sophisticatedly decorated and clearly built by people who have plenty of surplus cash to splurge. They had them back in the days.

Then they reached their ceiling. Latin population became too large even for that fertile land to feed.

At first they thought that Spanish Crown takes too much from them. Bolivar led them in War of Independence. They became free and independent republics who all thrive now who are poor and misrable and people from there sometimes emigrate back to Spain.

Now they experiment with socialism and believe US exploits them.

All of that is nonsence. 

Overpopulation it the cause of all these ills.

It is economy, stupid.

The USA and Australia

However Reaper's due could still be delaied. North American and Australian lands were still awailable for settlement. Once they run out of better options they went for what is left.

If you tell a person in 1700 that life in Hudson Bay is better than in Orinoco delta or Lake Maracaibo, he would laugh hard and think you are insane. Yet 300 years later it is out reality.

Back in the days Dutch opted to keep what is now Suriname and hand over what is modern New York to the Brits. Nowadays New York is huge and rich. No one ever heard of Suriname.

So, until they run out of the free land in modern US and Canada by the end of the 19th century, we still could avoid major wars.

During 19th century the US absorbed surplus of continental population. 

At the base of Statue of Libery is it written: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." 

That is a reference to the role the US used to play in the world. Via New York countless migrants came to the US and travelled further west to settle untapped lands in the west.

Manifest destiny - Wikipedia

As century progressed areas to the west of the original 13 states were settles with migrants. As these areas become populated enough, they stopped being territories and became states, admitted to the union.

However, at the turn of the century they finally reached the ocean on the other end of the US.

Fist California and then Arizona finally became states. There were no more free unsettled land anywhere further west or elsewhere.

Arizona became a last mainland 48th state of the US in 1912. Two years later began WW I.

World Wars

After Arizona became a state further surplus of people had nowhere to go and it had to be exterminated. Thus, WW I have started.

It is called Great War. Lots of people have died then. However, at the end of it all, once Reaper got his due, we got happy and affluent roaring 20s, Gilded Age with jazz, fancy Art Deco Art and other cool stuff.

Population grew again and that in turn culminated with Great Depression of the 30s, poverty, suicides and universal misery.

They wanted to avoid war during the 30s with all their desperate misguided dedication. Just like they desperately try to stop COVID nowadays. That only led to Stalinist Repressions, Holodomor and general raise of authoritarianism. Holodomor - Wikipedia

However, they could not do so.

WW II have happened anyway. 

Because it was delayed it was even Greater than the first one. It lasted longer and killed much more. Some fighting, like against Baltic Forest Brothers and Ukrainian Insurgent Army continued until 1954

The WW II have not started only because Hitler and Nazi are evil. People who think there would be no war if there was no Hitler are naive beyond any reason. There would just be someone else to start a war.

WW II killed enough and that allowed for another peaceful period.

Then Green Revolution kicked in and that allowed easy and happy 60s boomers love so much.

Conclusion

However now we reached another ceiling and Reaper has to be paid to avert pain and misery of austerity that will end up killing people anyway.

And we already have a solution.

COVID.

Instead of supressing it, we should embrace it.

Government special forces can spread the virus discreetly to infect the population, cull the numbers, pay the Reaper his due and finally allow us to stop surviving and start living.

So, embrace Corona-chan and let her pay the Reaper his due and fix the world for us.

On Viletta Nu and Chigusa

As Chigusa without her normal memories she is nice gentle and very likable woman.

As Viletta Nu she is she is selfish and rather ruthless woman who just wants to advance towards wealth, status and power. Kind of female Tamaki.

Her intelligence levels are patchy though.

On one hand she was smart enough to investigate on her own what have happened during the Shinjiku Ghetto incident. People who were geassed by Lelouch's geass normally have no memory of what were they doing under geass effects. They are merely left with results of their actions. She loosely remembered the last thing she saw before being geassed was a student and she cleverly used that as a lead to get to Lelouch and almost earned herself a promotion for capturing Zero.

On the other hand no one in Britannia knew about her and Oghi so she could have just keep it silent about him. It would be stupid to risk your life to assassinate him.

Also as Viletta she kind of lacks femininity. Not sure is she can be like Chigusa even with her memories intact.

Another issue with her is that it is hard to trust her. She is a kind of person who will lie and betray anyone for her advantage. There has to be something about her relationship with you that can convince you she will not backstab you.

Well, I guess other women can backstab you too. So you need something on them to trust them.

What I like about Yennefer of Vengeberg and what she, TrueHellDei and Rikka of the Wicked Eye have in common.

 

I only played Witcher games and did not read the book, so I only know the game version of Yennefer.

Many other characters in the game do describe her as problematic, spoiled and insufferable. Particularly Vesemir. Perhaps when she deals with them, she indeed is. However, their problems with her are of no concern to me.

However, she is actually very attentive and considerate to Geralt. For example, she remembers that he does not like portals and always goes great length to avoid using them no matter how inconvenient it could get for her. 

I very much can only like a woman who can show a similar level concern for my preferences. I like it when they are only super nice to me and me alone.

There is one more thing about Yeni that I like. Once she told Geralt that she wants to run away from all this mess in the world to live together an idyllic life, just two of them. 

That is what I like. I too want to run away from the stupid shit this world is and live my life on a something like a Caribbean Island paradise or a Technogenic Utopia (A Caribbean Island Technogenic Utopia Paradise), with the kind of women who meets my expectations. The only thing that is better is a harem full of women who meet my expectations.

This is a fundamental issue as it shows the common understanding of what good life is and desire to achieve it.

In this regard Yeni is similar to Rikka who her Vanishment This World. Though Yeni surely can make it vanish better than Rikka, but both want it to vanish.

I cannot tolerate women whose idea of idyllic life is different from this. Like if she cares for her parents, or her friends or social approval, or just seeks more excitement from the world. That is just not my thing. Period.

I particularly hate people who want approval of a broader society as it reminds me of the reasons, I hate my parents.

She has to be nice and friendly to me alone and hostile towards the world, as if desiring to protect me and herself from it. Yeni can do it, TrueHellDei can do it.

Absolutely not the other way around like my parents were.

I however can understand the desire to turn the entire world into a Carribean island paradise. I myself want to do something like that. A Caribbean Island Technogenic Utopia Paradise Revolution

I want to start a global revolution to turn the world into a Caribbean Island Technogenic Utopia Paradise.

Also, I love Yeni's fondness for black clothes as well as that black neck band.

Finally, Rikka and True for comparison.

Rikka wears black and dark violet when she is not in her uniform.

True also has great fondness of black, grey and dark violet.

Writing on the Wall

Writing on the Wall it the song that reflects on issues of our current era. The privileged dinosaurs in power do nothing but zealously guard their grip on society, while humanity rots and decays.

People starve and dying, they rot but powerful do not care. Old people drain life from young to restore their own youth. Clown like entertainers keep people distracted. Guards protect privileged from masses.

The song has happy ending, where Samurai Eddy interferes to kill the evildoers and save people from a conspiracy of powerful elites. He gives the couple the apple of knowledge as he drives them away.

This song is so overdue, we need someone like Eddy to save us from the corrupt elites and overbreeding.

On Leila Malcal and Julius Kingsley

I do not particularly like her.

However, it is not so much Leila herself a bad person so much is how the show generally revolves around her. She is kind of a Mary Sue.

Incompetent commanding officer in the very beginning is used to justify her taking control of the Wyvern. So that is does not look like she craves to be in power or enjoys using it.

When Ioannes kind of bullies her at the party but Akito stops him. In episode 1 Ioannes is shown to just treat it as marriage of convenience but in episode 3 he instead shows some concern for her. Inconsistent writing here.

Akito protects her from Ioannes and from whatever else.

Overall, she basically has whatever she wants. Lives in nice large room like some princess and most of Wyvern personnel admires her.

Show is named after Akito but in reality, he is treated as a support cast to Leila. A deus ex machina to solve her problems and advance her aims.

Unlike Lil Mayer she does have a lot of redeeming qualities, she treats Japanese well and well as knows to behave like a subservient woman, so I do not hate her per se.

However, I am not like Akito or other male cast members of this spinoff show. Well other than Julius Kingsley, who is Lelouch from the Hangyaku no Lelouch actually. After the end of the first season of Hangyaku no Lelouch Charles used his geass on Lelouch to erase his memories and make him think he is Julian Kinglsley instead.

Shin Hyuga actually manages to make Lelouch original memories to resurface, and that caused that mental breakdown in ep 3.

Kingsley however is somewhat different from the Lelouch of Hangyaku no Lelouch, particularly when it comes to ideology he professes. He also somewhat more brash and less smart than the original. However other than that he is Lelouch.

That said I watched only first 3 episodes so far so I am not sure if something will change in the last two episodes. I plan to complete it eventually.