Deputy Days, 4/5

Folks,

You know who pursues maximal efficiency in their operations? The Army. It doesn’t matter which armed forces, particularly. I have heard that there are two tenets which apply for every soldier, a commonality shared with athletes and bodybuilders, but the life or death severity with which the pragmatism is engendered in the armed forces, is as such:

[A good soldier gets sleep whenever and wherever possible.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gOPEpsGJyCs)

A good soldier always finds food.

Now, what in good heavens am I rambling about? Well, you see, I am a member of the Schizo Underground (unmediated and undiagnosed). You see, I believe that the dialectic of our society has been in a state of progression, one originating in the threat of the natural world (triumphed by civilization, the enclosure of cities), followed by the threat of the competitor nation states (See Imperial Age Rome), the need for subsistence ([widespread agricultural advances exponentially increasing the world population](https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/06/2019-Revision-%E2%80%93-World-Population-Growth-1700-2100-768x547.png)), scarcity in economic nation planning (Great Depression, creation of welfare state etc). And what could it possibly be at this successive stage?

It is my intimation that we are now in a contest of valuation and meaning, not purely moral but some of vanity, aesthetics, and other minutiae which I cannot precisely say. But what of food, and what of rest? This is where I propose to you, that as a Weeaboo Tech school, there are two anime series you should indelibly watch, each to suit a separate purpose.

You should watch Berserk, which will be food for your spirit, and you should watch Evangelion, which will be rest for your spirit. Berserk is based upon the Nietzschean school of thought, that you should champion your own values and do what you believe. Evangelion, however, invokes the notion that you can choose to have a positive or realistic opinion of yourself.

In essence, you are Schizoid. You have beliefs about what other people believe about you (ala Shinji) that reinforce your own prejudices about yourself, beliefs completely detached from reality and nevertheless substantiated by... well, nothing (as the French say, "à l’intérieur de la prison"). Likewise, you are Schizoid about values and meaning. From this, I promote to you, Berserk. You will find in it the origin of Dr. Post's 'Firelink Shrine' idea. [That for some of us, we are connected by a shared dream, which is a flame.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLXQcMEtoEw) Each of us are a fire in our own right; we may burn out, engulf, or warm a flame greater than ourselves.

All that I am asking of you, in the final analysis, is that you don't suffer for nothing, that you get your head straight, and that you believe in anything other than the ephemeral Apocalypticism.

I will be stepping down later today. It has been a great time serving you all, though this subreddit may no longer be what I once knew it as.

-Deputy