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[Anonymous No.11989975]

me after skimming the wikipedia article on gnosticism for five minutes

[Anonymous No.11989981]

me after realizing a thread died for this after five seconds

[Anonymous No.11989983]

>>11989981
me after realizing that no thread ever really dies

[Anonymous No.11990603]

>>11989983
Waluigi is the ultimate example of the individual shaped by the signifier. Waluigi is a man seen only in mirror images; lost in a hall of mirrors he is a reflection of a reflection of a reflection. You start with Mario – the wholesome all Italian plumbing superman, you reflect him to create Luigi – the same thing but slightly less. You invert Mario to create Wario – Mario turned septic and libertarian – then you reflect the inversion in the reflection: you create a being who can only exist in reference to others. Waluigi is the true nowhere man, without the other characters he reflects, inverts and parodies he has no reason to exist. Waluigi’s identity only comes from what and who he isn’t – without a wider frame of reference he is nothing. He is not his own man. In a world where our identities are shaped by our warped relationships to brands and commerce we are all Waluigi.

[Anonymous No.11991148]

>>11990603
Very baudrillardesque

[Anonymous No.11991239]

>>11990603
Being cannot be composed of what it is not, of contradictory points, anymore than Achilles stepped into a series of instants, divided. Waluigi is the difference of himself with himself, with the repetition of duration differing with itself to create new virtuals. This view of Mario as the symbolic-genesis of all others, as a symbolic-father which Waluigi is powerless but to be a reflection of, is the remnant of an Oedipal view. Waluigi is only defined by a relation to Mario as long as this view of Mario as a symbollic father, which Waluigi is a representation of, is kept.