The Blackberry Walk

Kyon is you - an average man. Adrift, he, like his peers, like the rest of us, latches on to the enigmatic, energetic Haruhi. Haruhi has achieved a higher level of spirit to most. She has become the Newtype, the enlightened one, realising and real-ising her own divine nature through achieving Christ Consciousness. However to the herd, this kind of power is unappreciated - her boundless authenticity and sincerity of character is not lauded but rather mocked. Despite not possessing Haruhi's virile spirit, Kyon saw something in her - something he could learn from her - and, despite the jabs from his mates, he delved into this new way of thinking, falling down the rabbit hole. Kyon's Great Realisation is the climax of the second season. After falling out with Haruhi over her authoritarian directorial strategies, he turns to his mate, Taniguchi, for solace. Taniguchi, however, mocks Kyon for trying so hard at making the movie for the school fair. In that moment, Kyon realises that he does care about the school fair. He is producing something with his friends and wants to see their collective vision realised. And Taniguchi? What's he doing? Shitting on their dreams from a position of ironic aloofness. Modern man protects themselves from pain against their soul by pretending not to care about anything. To be sincere about anything is to wear your soul on your chest where it can be hurt, so, the modern man protects their soul deep inside of them. Yet we bury our soul so deep that not even we can see - we develop a myopia for our meaning making mechanism. The menu says we must conform to the mood of the room. People look at us as if to say "Kuuki wo yondekure" ("Please read the air of the room") and we are frozen into submitting with a laugh instead of standing up for oneself with a calm measured sincerity. The air bender can control the air of the room with ease. The powerful sincere spirit, Haruhi, (spirit in ancient Greek is pneuma and also means wind) is that very air bender. Man has been kneecapped by their lack of recognition for their divine ability to bend the wind. Man must once again realise that, like Haruhi, they too possess this grand power. However, this power is stunted by our inhibiting neuroses. All neurosis originates from the conflict between ego and soul, to paraphrase Jung. Here, your moral aspects of yourself which "read the air of the room" are diametrically opposed to the desires of your soul. Modern man is so stuck in their own heads that they think that the them that reads the air of the room is them. That is the Cuck Brain. The Cuck Brain is the mind which submits to the world - the mind which laughs at themselves constantly without taking the things they love with sincerity. They are the anime fans which laugh at what they love knowing full well that what they love IS themselves, and they are just laughing at themselves. Taniguchi is that anime fan - instead of taking pride in whatever he does, he instead submits to the herd's opinion. Despite the hardships of making a movie, Kyon realises it is sincere, it is meaningful and it is real. The waning quality of sincerity is under threat by dangerous new myths which permeate modern times - ideas that all pride is hubris and that we must always put ourselves down to be modest. The act of being sincere, being authentic to your soul instead of to the 'average man' which society expect, is the hand of salvation which the divine spirit, Haruhi, reaches down to you with. A hand which will drag you along with her into the SOS-dan should you be calling SOS as you drown in the modern sea of desperation.