But I am a Nazi, here I am at my computer just Nazying away.

Way to prove my point. Yes, you found me out I am a huge Nazi. Now what? What exactly will you do?

Never said that non binary people are mentally ill. But this kind of uncharitable reading is common with your hexbear assholes and reason enough for the rest of Lemmy to defederate from you.

Also, oh no -- I'm a "lib." So I'm the same thing that 99.99999999% of Western people are. How horrible, how damning, however shall I live with myself now that some shut-in 22-year-old called me a lib. Get a grip.

It's real insofar as there are people who subscribe to the idea and practice it. In the same way that Christianity or Wicca are real. The debate isn't about this.

But because it is real in this way, it's also real that there are people who don't believe than one can be non-binary. There is more than one schema for gender currently in Western society, and these schemas are in competition for instance the traditional binary vs various different non-binary conceptions vs so-called "truscum" vs xenogender...

We know that gender itself as a matter of social practice (the work of second-wave feminists proves this definitively) so therefore all gender schemas are subject to social debate.

Expect, and this is where the crux is, that some (but not all) trans and non-binary activists are now claiming that gender identity is innate (while gender remains a social construct) and that in fact it is sex which is arbitrary and that in fact it takes a whole team of medical personnel to ascertain sex (the so-called "assigned at birth" model).

The broader point I am making is that because current Western gender schemas are in such flux, you can't simply say that someone is Nazi just because they subscribe to a different schema than you do.

Of course it's all sociopsychological. It's an identity. Like nationality and ethnicity it's a matter of social practice, not biology or genetics. As such it's very much in the realm of things which are debatable. Are are you claiming otherwise?

I said commienazi, hexbear falls under the commie part. You're just too annoying. You don't have an off switch, you declared yourself the Lemmy speech police. You're the loser nerd hall monitor type. You're also fragile and can't bear any disagreement. It's like, a person disagrees on a leftist issue like do non binary genders exist (a matter of sociological theory) and should underaged people be given puberty blockers (a matter so controversial some countries are reviewing the practice) you'll swoop in and declare them Nazis who need to die immediately.

This is why there are many who think your entire instance is an elaborate troll run from some bizarre Discord server, you all fit the annoying blue-haired leftist stereotype too exactly.

Ugh everything after Solid State Society has been such shit.

Try to burn down a federal court building: fiery but peaceful protests, no jail.

Kick down a "government-owned fence:" domestic terrorist, ten thousand deaths are not enough for you!

Commienazi troll instances (hexbear, lemmygrad) should be blocked by the default. Their users are unhinged and spend time harassing people.

Studying theory? Sounds very white coded to me. You need to sit your white ass down, shut up, and listen to what black trans femmes have to say.

That’s your only theory cracker.

I don’t know about you but I’d rather be depressed in a mansion than in a studio.

I loved watching it back in high school and I saw it a couple of times after. It’s one of those pieces of art that really stays with you like Ghost in the Shell, Twin Peaks, Silent Hill 2, or The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.

I find myself just randomly thinking about something from these things often. There’s a real value to that kind of challenging and weird stuff and I think people should expose themselves to it more often.

I’d encourage people in the case of Lain to look past the slow pace and late 90s aesthetics and just let the experience wash over you. You’ll come out a bit richer.

I don’t think that Lain actually had an overarching theme. This is only my personal opinion but to me it was like a series of loosely connected musings on how the Internet might transform individuals and society.

There’s a lot of stuff there about the nature of hypertext (the references to Memex and Vanevar Bush) and the concepts of addressability and indexicality — this is the theme of connection and identification. But these also intimations of how the Internet could be used for control and surveillance…

If there’s one place where it all intersects I’d say it’s in the concept of technique as explained by Jacques Elul. Essentially, technology is not a neutral thing. It reshapes the world and society and makes us adapt to it.

I feel that’s a prescient warning about what smartphones and social media ended up doing both to individuals and society.

Just to be clear I am not saying this is **the interpretation ** of Serial Experiments Lain, just mine.

In the end people should watch it precisely because it’s so provocative and can be read in many ways.

With social media, the message is more relevant than ever.

It’s not an action anime, it’s basically 13-part video essay but people should challenge themselves from time to time. And especially anime fans.