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><Z>the waifu is perhaps a definitional schizoid entity
><Z>people think it just means some uguu 2D girl who will accept you just as you are anon :3 but whom by definition ywn meet
><Z>but in fact this is a distortion of the truth
><Z>waifu really refers to a certain kind of social relation in which there is no possibility, read danger, of ego-contact with the Other, precisely because the Other is always-already exhaustively circumscribed within the internal fantasy
><Z>a relation in which there is no possibility of miscommunication, in which discourse glides [glisser] smoothly between parties
><Z>which, sure, can be correlated with being uguu but by no means is restricted to it
><Z>there are all kinds of waifus
><Z>anyway in eva rei is supposed to be this kind of entity
><Z>but
><Z>eva is kind of a reduction to the absurd,
><Z>well no not really but like
><Z>it allows the notion to unfold through to its logical conclusion
><Z>and exposes what lies behind the schizoid waifu fantasy
><Z>which is the mother
><Z>or more precisely the mother's womb – the schizoid gesture of withdrawal is fundamentally aimed at a kind of womb-like state of perfect security, safety, unconsciousness
><Z>thus, rei being a clone of yui, etc etc etc, everyone gets hugged and turned into tang
><Z>kimochi warui
><Z>we know all this
><Z>but eva was over 20 years ago
><Z>and naturally predates mobage, internet in the contemporary sense etc
><Z>what precisely has changed
><Z>is first of all the unprecedented expansion of the database, compartmentalisation, modularisation of characters
><Z>and second of all – and this is corollary to the first – the degree to which the internal fantasy realms of schizoid types have been colonised by the database
><Z>let us not believe this is anything other than the apotheosis of consumer choice
><Z>don't like her design? her personality? manner of speaking? the length of her hair? is she married in canon and thus unavailable?
><Z>don't worry anon
><Z>we'll make another version of her with the necessary adjustments
><Z>precisely because, as modularised components, characters are now things you can just fork off another version of – eg ALTERS – when you need
><Z>for a nominal fee, of course – even if F2Pers only invest their time, that's still opportunity cost
><Z>think of all the goethe you could have read instead of grinding upgrade mats, my dude
><Z>insert THAT quote from 1844 manuscripts, xd
><Z>anyway
><Z>under contemporary conditions the basic critique laid out in eva still holds
><Z>but
><Z>it may be that the mother, the womb, that is hiding behind the waifu fantasy, has changed in...nuance
><Z>there's irony, in which the critique from earlier is taken up and recuperated as a ward against anxiety – ie people who post about tfw no mommy gf ;_; etc
><Z>but this is really just another symptom of the progressive evacuation of all content from the subject
><Z>the death of affect
><Z>likewise
><Z>as schizoid fantasies become progressively more deadened, ossified, frozen
><Z>through internal colonisation by the logic of modularisation and exchange
><Z>the character of the fantasy mother begins to exhibit a bias toward the archetype of the Dark Mother, the inanimate, freudian todestrieb, absolute nigredo in other words dissolution and death
><Z>in the aeneid somewhere there's mention of an ancient punishment
><Z>in which a living person was tied to a dead body, the two facing each other, such that as the dead body putrefied the rot would eat into the living person and slowly kill them
><Z>this is an apt metaphor for the condition of man and his waifu in tyool 2018
><Z>in such an age as ours where the frozen image of the past dominates the present – which is to say, dead labour dominates living labour – death is in the air
><Z>schizoid fantasies manifest this inwardly, the will toward death
><Z>if you look at the things people ironically joke about killing themselves is way up there and keeps rising
><Z>the present situation is intolerable
><Z>industrial civilisation is already incapable of reproducing itself without keeping most of the population in an anti-depressant stupor
><Z>technics is on the road to obsoleting most of humanity, producing vast swathes of population reduced to bare life whose existence has value equal to zero
><Z>latent suicidiality exists wherever you go, why should your hobbies be exempt
><Z>tl;dr,
><Z>the endgame of waifufagging is necrophilia
><Z>because dead girls don't say no