Crossover in the Anime World

Will humans eventually abandon their bodies in the future?

After listening to Duran's words, Mark realized that this was not the future, but had already happened. Thirty boys and girls had already been transformed. What will happen in the future? unimaginable.

But Mark didn't ask any more questions. It was useless to ask. After all, everyone has their own choice about the future.

In order for everyone to accept their choice, they need to do nothing but do everything, which is too difficult. Mark asked himself that he could fight, but there was no way he could finish things quietly like Downey and make a choice for mankind.

The gap is too big.

Mark looked at the strong wind outside and the busy dust people in the wind. In a trance, he felt that the people outside had become monsters and the lighthouse had become a monster's lair. He feels that he cannot transcend human aesthetics and human stereotypes.

“It’s such a luxury to think about the future.”

Dulan thought that Mark should watch "The Song of Shaye". The male and female protagonists in it were very interesting. The female protagonist was a beautiful girl in the eyes of the male protagonist, but she was a monster in the eyes of others. While the male protagonist sees others as monsters, only the female protagonist is a beautiful girl.

What exactly is aesthetics?

What exactly is beauty?

Does it appeal to each eye, or is there a rigid standard of beauty?

When artists create, should they be realistic or abstract? Should they restore the scenery to the greatest extent, or should they create something incredible and incomprehensible?

If you think you are beautiful and others think you are ugly, is it your fault or someone else’s fault?

Mark's mind is full of questions. If everyone becomes a monster and he is a normal person, then he will be the real ugly monster, right?

If Yan Bing also turned into a monster, he wouldn't be able to bear it.

The pressure is great, and the thought of human beings becoming ugly in the future makes me feel bad.

Yan Bing saw her lover's confusion and couldn't help but ask why.

Mark did not hide anything and shared his thoughts with Yan Bing.

"I think you are thinking too much." Yan Bing said.

Mark smiled bitterly and said: "Although it is a bit funny, this is not unfounded worry, but has already begun. In the future, many people may become monsters that we cannot understand, just to survive in the Mana ecosystem."

Yan Bing also thought about what would happen if he became a monster. Everything he valued would be shattered, and even love would become incomprehensible.

In the past, her love for Mark was love. If she turns into a monster, will it turn into love for ingredients? The man who loved her to death became a delicious food.

Love that lasts until death is so fragile: "What is love? Is it the hormones of our bodies, the endocrine secretions of the brain, the fluctuations of the soul, or the mutual attraction of the essence of life?"

Mark couldn't answer.

When I think about these questions, I suddenly feel that human emotions are very hypocritical.

If Dulan can say it, love is the basis of distribution, and benevolence is distribution.

The disciples of Mohism criticized Confucianists as beasts, because Confucianists love themselves first and then love others, so they are beasts. But science has proven that humans are animals, beasts, so the Mohists are not wrong, the Confucians are not wrong either, everyone is right.

To love yourself first is to allocate love to yourself first. To love others is to distribute to others.

As for what love is, it must be a fusion of very complex factors, and it cannot be answered by just one reason. It has something to do with your education, your own aesthetics, and your own personality. Of course, it also has something to do with the hormones in your body. Various reasons ultimately determine the scope and direction of love.

Compared with love, benevolence is easier to understand. Distributing only to oneself is unkind, but distributing to everyone is benevolence.

As for aesthetics, Duran knows that aesthetics is also divided into two parts, one is the artist and the other is the audience. There is an information gap between the artist and the audience, and the content displayed by the artist does not mean that the audience can understand it.

Some philosophers believe that artists should have a standard of beauty derived from nature when creating, and artists should show pure beauty.

This kind of beauty is pure beauty without desire, just like an apple. If it is an apple in nature, the audience may feel hungry after seeing it. Then the artist's work should show the pure beauty of the apple, and the audience will only think that it is an apple, not a kind of food.

In other words, the artist's ultimate goal is to remove the audience's desires, allowing them to discover pure beauty and have a desire-free dialogue with nature.

That is to say, "the viewer does not desire, and the desirous does not observe". Aesthetics has no desire and is simple.

Of course, there are also other philosophers who think that the above statement is all nonsense. What is the beauty of nature? Nature is imperfect, and the artist's goal is to complete the beauty of nature, to fulfill the 'expectation of beauty', and to transcend nature. What the artist creates should be the 'ideal apple', one that can make the audience feel like eating it after just one glance. When you are full, you don’t have to look at other apples.

Under this aesthetic, there is no need to reflect the beauty of nature, but to show ideal beauty. Nature is not ideal, so artists have to make up for it. Of course, this kind of expectation of beauty must be dominated by artists, which will lead to the phenomenon of artists teaching the audience to appreciate beauty and accepting beauty according to the audience's head. Because the direction of compensating for nature is the artist's preconceived notion, and he already thinks that his compensation is the beauty that transcends nature, then any objection is a slander to beauty and means that the audience does not understand beauty.

These are two ideas about artistic creation, one is pure natural beauty, and the other is the ultimate ideal beauty.

But even if artists reach two realms, there is still a problem, and that is the information gap. They may feel beauty in their hearts, but they may not be able to create it. Even if they create it, the audience may not understand it.

There is a gap in information between the perception in the heart, the creation in hand, and the understanding of the audience. In the end, the art that the audience sees has nothing to do with what the artist wants to express.

The artist may want to express a tragedy, but the audience interprets it as comedy.

Therefore, in the eyes of the audience, each one is attracted to his own eyes, and there are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand viewers. Because the audience appreciates the work from their own perspective, not from the artist’s perspective, the audience is not a roundworm in the artist’s belly.

Whether the artist creates natural beauty that removes human desires or complements the ideal beauty of nature, the audience will have their own understanding.

It's as if the artist wrote a pornographic novel, but the audience thinks it's an imperial novel. The author is also helpless.

Therefore, artists do not need to think about teaching the audience what beauty is, the audience will choose according to their own needs.

Dulan believes that if Ran Bing turns into a monster, Mark can see the natural beauty of an artist, give up human desires, and just purely appreciate the way nature shapes life. Of course, if he could change his 'beauty expectations' and change his preconceived notions, he would be able to accept his monster girlfriend.

Why do many people think squinted eyes look good and Down syndrome looks good? Because they have formed their "prediction of beauty" in advance, they will naturally create in this direction when creating, and they think that they are complementing nature and that their beauty surpasses nature.

There are actually big eyes and long eyelashes in nature? That is the flaws of nature. All the flaws are turned into squinting eyes, which is the only way to complete nature.

Therefore, we need to change our ‘expectations of beauty’, throw away human desires, and simply appreciate the beauty of nature. Since monsters are born from nature, they must have their own beauty, which is just waiting for humans like Mark to discover it.

So Yan Bing became a monster. It was not that she became ugly, but that her beauty changed. However, it remains true to its origins and is still the beauty of nature. If you look at it with human desire, Yan Bing is indeed ugly, but if you don't look at it with human desire, there is a different kind of beauty.

Mark obviously hasn't learned this kind of thing, and he can't forget that "apples are edible" before appreciating apples. There is no way to forget "Ran Bing can be kissed, hugged and lifted up" first, and then appreciate Ran Bing. Therefore, his aesthetics is the aesthetics of human desire, and it is not divorced from low taste.