Crossover in the Anime World

"Why are you you, why is he him, why am I me." "Historically speaking, everything begins with division and union. In the beginning, the so-called relationship between us is from the same matrilineal line, and we have the same mother. We and other mothers are them. But the times are developing, and there will be more and more people, so there are clans. Blood relatives are us, and other blood relatives are them. Then the fusion of clans and clans started the era of tribes, and the same The tribal people are us, and the other tribes are them. Then the people who live in this land here are us, and the people in other lands are others. The scope continues to expand, and the people who live in the same country are us, and other countries are them. After that, people will move around, and people will leave their hometowns and motherland. So in a foreign country, you can’t immediately jump from us to them. So it’s us who believe in the same culture, religion, and ideology, but different cultures and religions. , Ideology is them." Duran spoke at length, describing the history of mankind is actually the history of distinguishing us and them, using different methods from concrete to abstract to constantly distinguish between you and me.

"No wonder people are always lonely." This is what Shinji Ikari said. He really felt that he was lonely. He used to live in a relative's house, and he had a naughty cousin who always made trouble for him, and his relatives always favored him. own children. Of course, he didn't blame his relatives. After all, this was an apocalyptic era, and supplies were extremely scarce. No one could afford to raise a son for someone else for no reason.

Starting at the age of five, he had been living under the shelter of others for ten years. He finally reunited with his father, but without a word of concern, he directly ordered his son to drive a robot. His father's coldness made Shinji Ikari even more disappointed.

Now I heard Duran say that human beings always distinguish between you and me and him. He deeply agrees with it. Starting from matrilineal society, from family, to clan, to tribe, to region, to country, to culture, to religion, to ideology, everything Things are divided. Forces and forces, individuals and individuals, are all isolation and opposition.

But this was obviously not Dulan's original intention, so he continued: "This is division, let's talk about unity next. The general trend of the world must be divided for a long time, and it must be united for a long time. Human beings must be divided, but they must also be harmonious. Human beings have created many things for division. Concepts, many concepts have been created for contracts. For example, polytheism, Chimera, and monotheism. In order to unify standards and allow more people to be included and participate, humans have taken great pains to divide and combine, and combine and divide. Tribal beliefs It became a polytheism, and the single animal totem became the Chimera totem. The God of War believed by the Spartans and Athena believed by the city of Athens could be brothers and sisters. Polytheism welcomed everyone in an inclusive way. After the decline of polytheism, monotheism rose, and everyone was guilty It is to give everyone a basis for participation as much as possible. The emergence of the country has established the same sense of identity in various regions, making people in different regions believe that they are from the same country, and the country's area is getting larger and larger. , more and more people agree..."

Shinji Ikari thought that the history of mankind is really interesting. At the same time, he did not understand why it was like this: "It was obviously divided, why did it merge again later?"

"Don't you understand yet? Division and union are two sides of the same coin. In fact, the process of division breeds unity, and the process of unity also breeds division. For example, there are heresies with different interpretations of doctrines in monotheistic religions. They clearly believe in the same god, but they kill each other. . In the same country, there are regional conflicts, and they are obviously compatriots but they fight with each other. There is unity within the division, and there is division within the unity, but the general trend is still to focus on cooperation, supplemented by division."

"Why? I obviously feel that separation is more serious than union, and it is impossible for people to understand each other." Shinji Ikari said.

"You have this understanding, that's why your AT force field is so powerful." Duran said: "In fact, humans and apostles are not separated and combined. The more repulsive the AT force field is, the more you want to prove that you are We often become the other person in the end. When we kill all the apostles, humans will become the apostles."

Is this also a historical trend? Shinji Ikari said that this is a bit far-fetched. How can we see the relationship between humans and apostles in historical trends? There are no apostles in human history.

However, there is, but Shinji Ikari doesn't know it. Seele acted according to the "Dead Sea Document". This book records the history of mankind and the apostles, and records the meaning of mankind and the apostles, that is, division and union.

If we look at the development of mankind, different forces attack each other. In fact, it is rarely the case that they directly kill all the opponents. Most of them are fusion. In the end, there is me among you and you among me. Of course, after the integration, in order to prove their existence, various different cultures and forces will separate and continue to fight. In fact, it is similar to the records in the "Dead Sea Script". All the apostles had an origin, but they were divided, but then the apostles all pursued integration.

Shinji Ikari said that human beings are not like apostles at all. Apostles are so tall, but human beings are so small and look nothing like them. This shows that this young man still cannot see through the phenomenon to see the essence. As for the AT position as the power of rejection, Shinji Ikari only partially agrees.

In fact, the neuron's explanation of the AT force field is 'a wall that separates oneself from the self and the objective world'. It has the same meaning as Duran's power of rejection and rejection. The more autistic the stronger, the more unwilling to open up. The stronger your heart is.

Duran hopes that Shinji Ikari will understand that separation is not absolute, and neither is union. The correct attitude toward life is to embrace separation, union, and union. This is what history has taught future generations.

Obviously Shinji Ikari hasn't understood it yet. After all, it is difficult to integrate knowledge by just reading history without experience.

As for how helpful Duran's education will be to Shinji Ikari in battle? It can be said that it is not helpful at all, not as helpful as a nuclear battery. But he still has to teach. After teaching, Shinji Ikari can deal with the situation calmly when he encounters it.

In the TV version, an arms company developed a nuclear battery robot to compete with EVA. However, the nuclear battery robot went out of control. It was Unit-00 and Misato Katsuragi who helped prevent the nuclear explosion. Seele was probably behind this failure. However, there is no such plot in the theatrical version, and Duran does not want to continue manufacturing nuclear power robots, but directly manufactures nuclear power batteries.

In fact, Duran has the S2 mechanism, which is the apostle's perpetual motion machine. Later in the theatrical version, EVA also installed a perpetual motion machine, so he can fight happily without the need for an external power supply. But Duran felt there was no need to take it out so quickly.

"Teacher, who are you?" Shinji Ikari finally asked the biggest question in his heart. Looking at Dulan's arrangements, he thought that the teacher was not an ordinary person.

"I am an animal protectionist, and I think the life of the apostles is also life, so I think humans and apostles should not kill each other, but should live in peace. So I study at force fields and think humans and apostles are the same thing , the genes of apostles are 99% similar to humans, and the origin of humans and apostles also have an inexplicable relationship. So even if humans and apostles reject each other now, humans will eventually become apostles, and the two will They become more and more similar, and finally merge into one. Young man, you are the bridge between the two sides, and you want to become both a human and an apostle." Duran said.

Shinji Ikari felt that the teacher was making things difficult for him. It was as outrageous as his father asking him to drive a robot. The teacher's goal was even more unbearable, so he said, "Why me?"

"You are still thinking in terms of points, not in terms of unity. If you are thinking in terms of unity, you are not you, you are me and him. It is you, Shinji Ikari, who is piloting Unit 1, and it is me, Duran. When you’re driving, someone else is driving, so it doesn’t matter who’s in the cab,” Duran said.

I'm not me? Shinji Ikari said, "Who am I?" The young man thought that he was going to be fooled by the teacher.