Chapter 113: When Science Becomes a Myth
Science fiction is literature that amplifies imagination, and the creation that can subvert science fiction can give people a powerful impact.
"What do you think the Cthulhu system is?" Guan Li asked the question, and without waiting for Black Gold to answer, he immediately continued with the next sentence, "Yes, it is a myth." ”
Myths that have been deconstructed, religions that have been rewritten.
The so-called "myth" is a compromise between human reverence for nature and imagination.
If you can't understand it, it's "God."
So what is science?
Science is an attempt to understand God's mind with the power of mortals.
"The contradiction between cognition, understanding and reality is a constant theme in Cthulhu – the very existence of some information is a disaster for humanity. ”
Look, "truth," what a beautiful word!
That's the whole point of human existence, isn't it?
The world is always wandering, and we are all on the road.
In the context of such a long period of time and prosperity, there is no point in living without moving towards the truth.
Is it?
Black Gold: "Not really, right?"
Although it feels like Guan Li is right, giving everything for an ethereal ultimate answer will not be the only value.
It certainly makes sense to move towards such a great goal.
But that doesn't mean that other paths in life are meaningless.
Ideals do not represent everything, and we must always compromise with reality.
What's the point of saying something like "theory of meaning"?
A lot of things don't really matter about meaning.
Life is in the world, just live happily.
Divine Will: "But this also means that these people—ordinary people who will eventually die—really have no meaning on a cosmic scale. ”
Black Gold: "Science doesn't necessarily make sense, the civilization that we have spent thousands of years building is this kind of thing, who knows if the 'truth' is true or not? Maybe we are just a bunch of turkeys raised by farmers." ”
Divine Will: "You even know about the 'farmer hypothesis'?"
Heijin: "Don't think of painters as illiterate, I have also studied classical culture and religious art in depth! I have read so many popular science books!"
God's will: "Whoever makes your painting style look like it doesn't have anything to do with 'science fiction'"
Black Gold: "So you need a sci-fi feel to paint Cthulhu, because it's sci-fi?"
Divine Will: "Taking the myth of chaos as the base, embedding the confusion of science fiction in it as the core, should give people such a feeling." ”
Black Gold: "You don't need to draw it, you can just say it, right?"
You weird Party A, can you give the painter a way to live!
God's will: "I think you understand." ”
Black Gold: "Even if I can understand it, it's useless if others can't understand it!"
Divine Will: "What do they do?
Black Gold: "Your request is really fresh and refined. ”
I have never seen this kind of official that completely abandons the reader's senses and is full of self-congratulation.
But science fiction myths?
Guan Li even goes a step further and gives a specific aggregation of imagery: "Dark, huge, dense, primordial fear, no need to be understood, only to be attracted." ”
The picture scroll unfolds before your eyes, and the epic rushes before your eyes, without any scruples about your feelings as a reader.
You're trying to make sense of the story.
How can you understand that?
It is the story of God, a lifetime of looking up to a moment of brilliance, which looks brighter than ten thousand lightning bolts across the night sky.
It is said that science fiction is writing, meaning is edification, and mapping the future.
And what is the significance of writing myths?
Not why.
It's just magnificent.
"Let the ten cannons roar, and then remove them from the air and hearing, leaving only the middle nine crowded silences. Then, let these all become heartbeats and feel the mystery that fills the body. In the center of the rest, place the dried skin shed by a snake. ”
We can't understand, we don't know the thoughts of the people who make up myths.
What was the mood of the human ancestors, who trembled under the power of nature, to worship them as gods?
The greatest meaning of art is that it has no meaning.
The perfect expression of the picture is the expression of nothing.
To integrate the thoughts of the moment into the brushstrokes of the unknown existence
I still can't draw this TM!
And he's just an illustrator!
Why give him such a philosophical problem!
Black Gold began to examine himself deeply-
Why do you want to come out and take the job? Why do you choose God's will? Why do you want to agree to the conditions?
Isn't it okay to find a few people who are stupid and have a lot of money to fool around?
There are still many fools in this world.
At his level, as long as he is willing to go into the water, it is easy to make money.
But no.
If you are willing to lower your requirements, use your fame to paint purely commercial works
Black gold doesn't get mixed up to this point.
He became famous at a young age for the classical series of Mountains and Seas, and spent several years in obscurity on Western religious themes.
- Maybe it's like what my family commented: it went against the mainstream style from the beginning.
For painters, it is also a matter of luck to find a subject that suits their style and preferences.
Could Cthulhu be his next highlight?
"I don't know at all. "Still don't understand what it is, there's no specific story, there's no more references," he said.
"But a mythical depiction of sci-fi instability and real fear — that's it, right? I see, I'll look up more, give it a try. ”
God's will: "It couldn't be better." ”
Black Gold: "Then the second draft is back, is the first draft okay?"
Shenyi: "That doesn't need to be changed, as a base map, it still fits well with the style of the website." ”
Anyway, after the website is launched, it is estimated that few people will seriously study the basemap, just look like it!
Heijin: "Okay, I'll check the information, and I'll look for you in two days!"
Offline in an instant, crisp and neat.
Divine will: "Gone?"
Divine will: ""
Well, it seems to be really gone.
Guan Li looked at the two more sketches, and suddenly realized that the second one was still very desirable.
Although it is not indescribable in the "fundamentalist" style, it is also vivid enough to show its image as a concept of Azathos.
- Well, it's indescribable, just like the words say.
Maybe you can keep this manuscript the next time you talk to Black Gold?
As for the critical remarks just now?
That's all subjective!
The big list of opinions he poured into Black Gold were all Guan Li's views on Old Man Luo's Cthulhu fundamentalism.
In fact, after being opened by Dresser, the requirements of the Cthulhu system are far less stringent.
After all, more and more people are writing, and the creator groups are mixed, and different ideas are mixed together, and it is impossible to maintain the original purity after all.
In the end, the system of the Cthulhu Mythos has moved from science fiction that reflects the humanistic care of reality to a myth that expresses the imaginary world
"System, oh, your mission, go put the basemap of Cthulhu on the website. "He got half of the system back that was still messing with the forbidden Yao.
In fact, the system has been parting some attention, watching the whole process of innocent painters being brainwashed.
It can be seen that it wants to carve a big "miserable" word on the black gold thigh.
With a systematic understanding of Guanli.
This person is afraid that he doesn't know what he has said blindly, he will say whatever comes to mind, and the thoughts that pop up in his head one after another are thrown out one after another.
But Heijin obviously took what he said seriously, and thought about it seriously and thought about it and thought it made sense?
Well, there is only sympathy.
Sure enough, artists just tend to think too much.
"All right, Administrator. "The skills of the system to consciously deal with the care of the people have been perfected.
To sum it up, it's just three words - look at what you do!