"...what if reality is nothing but some disease?"
Anybody know the significance of this line? it is the ONLY input given by Rant, so i would assume it has some deep, deep meaning behind it.
what message is Rant trying to convey here?
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I didn't take it that seriously, although it was his last famous words...
But what i took from it was something like the "reality" they were living in was boosted -- so he was kind of trying to save people from the reality.
Or.
It was some cool ass existential line Chuck wanted to include to propose that question on us.
Or.
Maybe it has to do with the overall theme of the book, deciding what is real and what is not. Who's story is truth and who's is an exaggeration to make themselves seem cool.
Or.
If reality is nothing but some disease -- then escaping should be the cure/treatment?
Or.
No, wait. Stop. I think i got it. Earlier on it was said that Rant learned that reality is something you can create... Boo-yah! So... What I'm trying to say is....
Consider all the socialization we go through with the holidays: all that shit Green talked about -- Christmas, Toothfairy, Halloween, Easter Bunny... Reality is something you can create the same way's that if everyone believes a lie, how its no longer a lie... Reality is nothing but some disease that we all get caught up on, Rabies/AIDS, when what's really important is slipping you by -- friends? family? love?
Get it?... Well, I kinda do... Sort of...
I don't know... Maybe you guys can help me on this.
I interpreted it as reality being actual reality, like not boosted peaks, and the disease being rabies, therefore not being able to experience true reality unless you had rabies and couldn't use your port. Contracting rabies frees you from boosted peaks, and grants you real experiences.
I understand what you're trying to say.
rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Is this the real life or is it just fantasy?
...caught in a landslide...
...no escape from reality...
Even Rant says something about what Rabies does to the mind.
I think he's comparing the depravity of the human condition to the universal truths behind the meaninglessness of human existence. To be human is to suffer, without suffering there is no human.
Still my guitar gently weeps...
Perhaps it has something to do with the "Rant" cerotype of the Lissa Virus, he created a new disease, superior and more tenacious than the original virus, and in doing so fashioned a reality of his own. That seemed to me to be the point of getting rabies over and over, the creation of a new Lissa virus. Whether that was his intention or not is entirely up for interpretation. I'm unsure why he is touted as a serial killer... there is no record of him actually kissing random strangers to give them rabies. I suppose he is only a serial killer by reputation. An idea perpetuated by the "Children of Rant" and "Spawns of Echo", and apparently the government as well, which is actually composed of historians. Mind bending fun.
This line had me really confused, too. I think by "reality" he was referring to the current reality they were experiencing. It was a diseased reality, brought upon by the elites, the Historians. Looking at the basic theme of the book, and the context in which Rant was speaking, he had to be referring to his then-current alteration of reality and his understanding of its origins. So this might be a precise interpretation. But I'm not sure, in the least.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Like any disease, reality can get altered with meds, can get cured (disappear) or even transform into some much more powerful disease. So I guess reality can change in the same way diseases do, with an outcome we can sometimes choose for ourselves: death, healing, or just keeping going with the 'disease/reality' we have.
I think Rant is essentially asking YOU that question. What if reality is nothing but a disease? If that disease could be cured there would be no reality. And everything we know, we are, would be meaningless. I think that pretty much sums up Rant's personality. He doesn't think anything has a meaning. That's why he wanted to give the kids of Middleton a truly real experience so much with the Haunted House. That's why he doesn't mind saving his mom and end up not existing. He doesn't care.
And whether or not stopping his mom from being raped would make him immortal isn't clearly stated. What's clearly stated is killing your ancestor would make you immortal. So there is a risk if Rant saved his mom he could disappear forever.
Again, Rant doesn't care.
Don't take it so literally.
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