I'm all into science and knowledge stuff too and have a lot of hate for the pro-ignorant forces here in the West, but I got a different spin from this. I don't think the message is "knowledge is bad"; it looks like having complete and total knowledge is bad because it leaves nothing left for a curious mind to strive for. Human knowledge can't ever really reach infinity so to suggest that is a reason to stop learning is not an equitable response.
I can just picture Soul telling Maka that he doesn't give a shit about passing a test because knowing everything is teh ebil. She'd whack him a deserved good one.
But, in the theory that appears to be presented here, when all is known there's nothing left to do. It could be interpreted as resulting in a sort of madness, and I think it *could* be interesting. It's not a clean cut White-Black debate. What Index seems to be promising is way beyond what humans could ever learn even if all of humanity geared up for generations of super-nerd experimenting and exploring. Not sure how it will play out here but I'm sure Ohkubo isn't participating in our american wars for smarts or ignorance (or on the side of the wimmin-haters, for that matter).
I also picked up on strains of a "the world isn't what you think it is (and humanity's knowing it would totally upset the apple cart)" vibe. But that's been running on a low current through out the series.
When a series seems to be changing focus I always wonder how much input the editor has and if the mangaka is being pressured or just is flaky and goes with whatever the reader polling says. This chapter read a bit like an unfinished TV episode storyboard. Maybe he's been thinking in video instead of panel.
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I can just picture Soul telling Maka that he doesn't give a shit about passing a test because knowing everything is teh ebil. She'd whack him a deserved good one.
But, in the theory that appears to be presented here, when all is known there's nothing left to do. It could be interpreted as resulting in a sort of madness, and I think it *could* be interesting. It's not a clean cut White-Black debate. What Index seems to be promising is way beyond what humans could ever learn even if all of humanity geared up for generations of super-nerd experimenting and exploring. Not sure how it will play out here but I'm sure Ohkubo isn't participating in our american wars for smarts or ignorance (or on the side of the wimmin-haters, for that matter).
I also picked up on strains of a "the world isn't what you think it is (and humanity's knowing it would totally upset the apple cart)" vibe. But that's been running on a low current through out the series.
When a series seems to be changing focus I always wonder how much input the editor has and if the mangaka is being pressured or just is flaky and goes with whatever the reader polling says. This chapter read a bit like an unfinished TV episode storyboard. Maybe he's been thinking in video instead of panel.