Chapter 2703: Breaking up and Getting Back Together

"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, the other mothers are them. But as time goes by, there will be more and more people, so there are clans, and the blood relatives are us, and the other blood relatives are them. Then the fusion of clans and clans started the era of tribes, and the same thing happened. The tribes are us, and the other tribes are them. Then the people who live in this land 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 the other countries are them. After that, people will move around, and people will leave their hometowns, and their motherland. Then in a foreign country, you cannot immediately jump from us to them. So it is us who believe in the same culture, religion, and ideology, but different cultures and religions. , Ideology is them." Duran spoke in a long way, describing the history of mankind is actually a 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 others 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.

However, this was obviously not Dulan's original intention, so he continued: "This is division. Next, let's talk about unity. 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 reconciled. Human beings have created many things for division. Concepts, many concepts have been created for the sake of contract. For example, polytheism, Chimera, and monotheism. In order to unify standards and allow more people to participate, humans have taken great pains to divide and combine 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. After the decline of polytheism, monotheism rose and everyone was guilty. It also gives 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 members of 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. . The same country has regional conflicts, and they are obviously compatriots but they fight with each other. There are alliances within the divisions, and divisions within the alliances. However, the general trend is still to focus on cooperation and supplement it with divisions. "

"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 When we kill all the apostles, humans will become the apostles in the end."

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 differentiate 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 one is, the stronger they are and the less willing they are 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 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 what kind of help Duran's teachings can bring to Shinji Ikari in battle? It can be said that it is of no help at all, not as helpful as nuclear batteries. But he still has to teach. After being taught, Shinji Ikari can deal with the situation calmly.

In the TV version, an arms company developed a nuclear battery robot to compete with EVA, but the nuclear battery robot went out of control, and it was Unit-01 and Misato Katsuragi who helped to prevent the nuclear explosion. It is very likely that Seele was behind this failure. However, there is no such plot in the theatrical version, and Duran did not want to continue to make nuclear power robots, but directly made nuclear power batteries.

In fact, Duran has the S2 mechanism, which is the perpetual motion machine of the apostles. In the later part of the theatrical version, EVA is also equipped with perpetual motion machines, and can fight happily without external power supply. But Duran felt that 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 these arrangements made by Duran, he thought that the teacher was not an ordinary person.

"I am an animal protectionist. I think the lives of the apostles are also lives, so I think humans and apostles should not kill each other, but should live in peace. So I studied the AT force field and believed that humans and apostles are the same thing. The genes of apostles are 99% similar to those of 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 become more and more similar, and finally merge into one. And you, the boy, are the bridge between the two. You have to become both a human and an apostle." Duran said.

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

"You are still thinking in a divided way, not in a combined way. If you think in a combined way, you are not you, you are me, and you are him. It is you, Ikari Shinji, who is driving Unit-01, and it is me, Duran, who is driving, and it is someone else who is driving, so it doesn't matter who is sitting in the cockpit." Duran said.

I am not me? Ikari Shinji said, then who am I? The boy thought that he was going to be taught a fool by his teacher.