Just rewatched Ep 1 of Evangelion and that whole conversation with getting Shinji to pilot Unit 01 between Shinji, Misato, Gendo, and Ritsuko, eventually involving Rei's injured self, is such a perfect and horrific metaphor for life. This kid who doesn't know what's going on, doesn't know what he's supposed to do, doesn't know how to perform what all of these people expect of him, and doesn't know why this is expected of him, is thrust into a terrifying situation and guilted into societal reciprocity because children simply have no other option but to fulfill the desires and expectations of adults because at the end of the day adults don't care whether children consent to it, they just care that children rise to the task. And even the adults who have sympathy for these children forced into an impossible choice will fall into line and badger the children into obedience because they see no other option.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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