The Saga of Tanya the Evil (light novel)
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| THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER. ---------------------------------------- I'm really glad that this chapter had a significant portion of it dedicated to the gods in the story. This story is taking a strong, though ironic, anti-theistic stance, and I was curious as to how the author planned to square that particular corner. I'm impressed with what Carlo Zen wrote and I enjoy at how reasonable it is. The first point is that Tanya's hatred towards Being X is completely irrational and counter to her own modus operandi. Typically, the anti-theist position is predicated on the assumption there is no God or gods. Tanya knows full well that there are gods, even if there is credible doubt whether the gods are actually good or not (though everything points to the idea that the gods are indeed good). Tanya opposes the gods on moral grounds, though her morals constantly shifts towards what is in her best interests. "I would hate to act against my own principle and violate the freedom of others, but honestly, I can deal with that. The thought of someone else violating my personal freedom, however, is absolutely intolerable" (pg. 112). The result is that Tanya has no better moral basis to argue that the gods are wrong that the gods do to argue that they're right. In fact, because the gods maintain the system and manage the humans within it, what the gods consider moral would necessarily become moral. Tanya attempts to argue on individualists grounds, but what is individualism when your very being is determined by said higher power. Even if we ignore the morality of the situation, one would expect that Tanya would follow along with Being X due to practical reasons. Tanya is a person who has clearly shown that her goal is to find a system, and then to rise to prominence within the system. It is how she operated as a salary-man and how she operates as a soldier. It is odd that she would not do the same in regards to Being X. Tanya has enough information to conclude that Being X can decide her life, so living in line with Being X's desires would allow her to do the best within the system. Tanya instead curses Being X. This position makes more sense when you consider that Tanya isn't fully reliable as a narrator, and we already have good evidence that Tanya is indeed evil even though she has a rationalist veneer on it. It is for this reason that I find the new computation gem deliciously ironic. Tanya's own rationality will now become a weapon against her in her spat against Being X. |
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