Neon Genesis Evangelion is much deeper when you ignore the gestures toward gnosticism in favor of understanding it as a meta-commentary on the mecha-shonen genre which generally depicts becoming-instrumentalized as a romantic patriotic duty.

PROTIP: Shinji isn’t the authorial self-insert— Gendo is.

The Human Instrumentality Project is the Universal-Homogeneous-State which creates an objective Universality immanent in the world which recognizes the Particularity of all things— which is the definition of Individuality.

It’s literally a long story explaining to weebs the production of the End of History lmao

“Get in the Eva” is the same thing as “Go to work at your corporation you weeb”

It’s the most anti-otaku anime of all time— it’s about how the otaku are consumed in their solipsistic psychosis & need to “go get a job & join society & be productive” & showing that this is a painful process, not an “escapist” fantasy

Anno (Gendo) hates his fanbase— he hates otaku culture— he hates anime (like Miyazaki)— because it produces the otaku.

He even said in an interview “if you’re a normal productive member of society it will teach you nothing”— also: