11-15-2012, 07:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-15-2012, 07:28 PM by Tenet Nosce.)
The concept of hell never made much sense to me... so lemme get this straight... all the "naughty" and "evil" people go to hell when they die, which is lorded over by the "devil"... who punishes them for their misdeeds? Wouldn't the "devil" be pleased and reward his minions?
Anyway, I tend to envision 4D negative as more of a Camazotz like place from A Wrinkle In Time. A world of extreme conformity and hierarchical command.
http://www.shmoop.com/a-wrinkle-in-time/...ymbol.html
Anyway, I tend to envision 4D negative as more of a Camazotz like place from A Wrinkle In Time. A world of extreme conformity and hierarchical command.
http://www.shmoop.com/a-wrinkle-in-time/...ymbol.html
Quote:Camazotz and IT
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
IT, speaking through its various mouthpieces, portrays Camazotz as giving Disneyland a run for its money as the Happiest Place in the Universe. Here's what the IT-possessed Charles Wallace has to say about Camazotz:
"Why do you think we have wars at home [on Earth]? Why do you think people get confused and unhappy? Because they all live their own, separate, individual lives. I've been trying to explain to you in the simplest possible way that on Camazotz individuals have been done away with. Camazotz is ONE mind. It's IT. And that's why everybody's so happy and efficient." (8.80)
So Camazotz may look like it has a large population, but really it's like a Sims game where one higher power controls everyone. Free will is an illusion: anyone who deviates from the norm is considered a mistake, and either forcibly brought back into conformity or destroyed. It's utopia...or hell, depending on your perspective. IT says its various offshoots are happy, but does happiness have any meaning in such a tightly controlled system? Can people be forced to be fit one model of happiness? Camazotz forces Meg to confront her own assumptions that she'd be happy if she could just be more like everyone else.