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Maybe I'll rewatch through Lain over the weekend since I have the Bluray for it
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@northernnarwhal That one's overdue for me. It's been too long.
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@julianproxy Yeah, I've watched through it more than once but I haven't watched it through in its entirety in over a year and I definitely want to revisit it. It's such a rich and detailed show and I love the ideas it explores a lot, so I feel compelled to revisit it every now and then when I can. Plus I just got the whole show on Blu Ray so I can rewatch it on my dad's HD TV over the weekend, which should be nice.
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@northernnarwhal Blu-ray sounds awesome. It's been a long time since I've seen it all the way through. Curious about its relevance today.
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@julianproxy It's narrative is definitely a product of late 90s anxiety of the coming technological era, but I think if anything its musings on the nature of reality and the ways in which a state of "offline" doesn't truly exist are even more poignant and relevant in today's world, which can be interpreted as the aftermath of the show's many predictions.
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@northernnarwhal It's no longer all about The Wired. The kids these days are all up in the Wi-Fis and smartphonez!
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@julianproxy The interesting part about this is that the ubiquity of those things in our modern culture is actually just a more actualized construction of the very ideas about the internet that The Wired from Serial Experiments Lain expounds on.
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@northernnarwhal Exactly!
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@julianproxy Like, because we so actively engage with social media it becomes a filter for how we effectively engage with reality. In the same way that The Wired in Serial Experiments Lain is meant to articulate the multiple layers in which culture informs reality, the constant access to the internet through an increasingly pervasive amount of tools enabled to access said internet has both broadened and altered the way in which we interact with our own individual realities.
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