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Whether it’s fanfiction, it has captured the essence of Makishima’s critique of the Sibyl System, in vivid imagery, and an analysis of Psycho-Pass that I think about often.
It’s fantastic, and these are the kind of works that would have been Urobuchi Gen proud.
““There is only one fundamental right: a man’s right to his own life, which means the freedom to take the actions required by the nature of a rational being for the support, the furtherance, the fulfillment and the enjoyment of his own life. Such is the meaning of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. "Thus, for every individual, a right is the moral sanction of his freedom to act on his own judgment, for his own goals, and by his own voluntary, uncoerced choice. The right to the pursuit of happiness means man’s right to live for himself, to choose what constitutes his own private, personal, individual happiness and to work for its achievement. It means that man cannot be forced to devote his life to the happiness of other men, and that the collective cannot decide what is to be the purpose of a man’s existence nor prescribe his choice of happiness. "Nevertheless, above men stands an immense and absolute power taking upon itself alone to watch over their fate. It would be like a parent, if it did not keep them in perpetual childhood. The Sibyl System labors as the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness providing for their security, foreseeing and suppling their necessities, facilitating their pleasures, and managing their principal concerns: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living? "It has successfully taken each member of society fashioning him at will with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original individuals cannot penetrate to rise above the crowd. Although free will has not yet been completely shattered, but bent and guided, men are seldom forced by it to act, but are constantly restrained from acting. Alexis de Tocqueville said it in the nineteenth century. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.””
— Makishima Shougo
The homoerotic intellectual attraction between these 2 are THROUGH THE ROOF
this anime didn't have to make declaration of murder to be this profoundly intimate ya know...
like damn, who wrote this script...
No one asked for this, but here’s Makishima Shogo as an Equestrian sphinx.
You’re welcome.
I'M SOBBING, SCREAMING AND DIEING
I love this series so much