09-19-2006, 01:14 AM
I don't like Digimon because of its characters, nor its stories. They've been used a dozen times or more and really aren't that original. The thing that's really interesting for me is seeing high tech societies come up with modernized versions of ideas that are from a completely different era in the human history. In our technocratic world, science and progress destroyed the belief in anything supernatural for most people. If it's scientifically unlikely or impossible, it doesn't and can't exist. A werewolf, a vampire can be exposed as result of hallucinations or the unconscious function of the brain to fill up incomplete mental images by association. A bat flies behind a wall and on the other side a pale man with a black cloak and brick red lips appears. A vampire is born.
Digimon avoids being condemned as untrustworthy by using the relations we gained over tenth of years from the increasing influence of computers and the digital method of functioning on our everyday life. We know computer animations, robots, apparently intelligent programs able to learn from what is told them, ect. Having all this in mind, the way to a real Digimon doesn't seem far (which of course is a false impression). The illusion that with our current course of developing technology further and further Digimon could one day theoretically be existing, belies the real scientific problems with artificial life, which are yet to be solved and hardly known to the public. But it's just a show. I don't need documentaric realism. If everything would be possible and explainable, Digimon would run on Discovery Channel.
Digimon, spawn of the zeitgeist.
Of course, there is much more to it than just what I wrote.
ASB
Digimon avoids being condemned as untrustworthy by using the relations we gained over tenth of years from the increasing influence of computers and the digital method of functioning on our everyday life. We know computer animations, robots, apparently intelligent programs able to learn from what is told them, ect. Having all this in mind, the way to a real Digimon doesn't seem far (which of course is a false impression). The illusion that with our current course of developing technology further and further Digimon could one day theoretically be existing, belies the real scientific problems with artificial life, which are yet to be solved and hardly known to the public. But it's just a show. I don't need documentaric realism. If everything would be possible and explainable, Digimon would run on Discovery Channel.
Digimon, spawn of the zeitgeist.
Of course, there is much more to it than just what I wrote.
ASB