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Originally Posted by Mandarake
Oh I agree with you 100%. I don't think Urobuchi is making any kind of allegory here. My own take at this point is that he's just having fun with some very black humor. Perhaps toward the end of the series he will sort things out. Then again, he may continue to mess with our heads to the very last.
Here's my whole deal. Akane, Kougami, Gino and Masaoka all strike me as reasonably intelligent people. Each in his own way has suffered some serious deprivation to the point of dehumanization at the hands of the Sybil system. And yet all of them continue to stick up for the system and the status quo. To wit:
1. When the director reminds Gino that Sybil was responsible for the prosperity and stability of the great many, Gino, who lost his dad to latent criminality, agrees with her without questioning the cost in freedom and human dignity and agrees that public faith in the system must be protected from certain inconvenient facts. This strongly indicates that what the director said to him about Sybil's benefits to society was true.
2. Masaoka says he came to accept and believe in the system long after it had relegated him to being an enforcer and stripped him of his rights as a detective, husband and father.
3. As they enter the confinement center for latent criminals, Kougami tells Akane, without any trace of irony or bitterness, that once the system is done with him that place was where he was going to end up.
4. Akane personally witnessed a catastrophic failure by the system resulting in the murder of her best friend, and yet her quick recovery after the mind scoop indicates that she still sincerely trusted and accepted Sybil and was determined to continue operating within the system.
So the question that comes to my mind is how such apparently intelligent individuals could endure shocking abuse from the system and accept it without any kind of resentment or discontent. The only plausible explanation I can find is a social compact - they believe it's worth enduring these privations in return for having an orderly and prosperous society under Sybil. These people don't strike me as suckers, so the benefits of Sybil that they perceive must be considerable enough, at least in their minds, to offset what it takes from them.
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Gino accepted what the lady said cause he knows of no other truth ever hear of propaganda.
Are you even reading other peoples posts -_-|||. There working for sybil cause they have all been conditioned to think its right. Do some comparing to real life events or put your self in the characters shoes.
How can some one born with out much freedom know that there freedom has been taken.
Sybil's benefits to society are lies but people trust sybil so much now it has become they're eyes ears and mouth to put quite frankly they are puppets really I am not getting how some one could miss this.
If they questioned Sybil they're psycho pass would go up like Gino father did until he accepted sybil that sounds alot like how Winston in 1984 was tortured and Held in prison till he was reprogrammed to only love big brother and serve it with out question alot less brutal here in psyho pass but you see the comparison.Eventually Masaoka gave into the propaganda and told him self hai theres less crime with sybil people are loving longer I guess I was the one who was wrong.
The problem I am seeing with people understanding psycho pass is instead of just ruleing threw fear and total brainwashing with propaganda, Or Ruleing threw Lies of prosperity and de education its ruling threw both.
Stories like this are supposed to make us think of were are government is going. Perfect example the new gun law trying to get passed the common person thinks if the government is saying a 10 round magazine is a lot it must be sure restrict the guns.Seeing as how it got passed here in N.Y. state I am going with people will accept anything. When this law is complete B.S. the only thing not banned by this are shot guns and large caliber revolvers most semi auto hand guns have a 8 and above clip size. Same for .22 caliber revolvers. And half the shootings that happen are with illegal guns you never see this kinda uproar about gang shootings but a common person will not do this kinda research they will go with what ever the government says.
We already had people flat out say sybil is bad the Avatars,Rina look how the people in the club for the avatars were treated...These enforcers are starting to seem more like dicks if this keeps up no matter how many people maki kills they are just as bad. They had better start questioning sybil or be made out to look like bad guys during Rina's arc to get some redemption.
Also if anyone taught like you or me in the enforcers situations we would probably be put down before we could rise up or go on the run.