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there’s so many allusions to ancient Greece in TRON 1982 and I love it, which makes Legacy hit even harder as a tragedy because… what is a more devastating Greek tragedy than… getting replaced by Rome

yes yes totally!

and also at least some programs seem to be aware that the gods, while powerful, are not omnipotent or infallible (really much more like the ancient greek idea of gods than the modern christian idea)

that said, there’s a uniqueness to it that I’m not sure matches any IRL religion… is there any religion where everyone has a personal religious figure dedicated to them? I mean not just like “the god of farmers” or “the patron saint of carpenters” but like the personal god of andy smith in chicago… i guess sorta “guardian angel” but… if there’s any religion with actual theology on a concept like that, I wanna read about it

at the same time, I very much doubt that every program actually has a specific dedicated User that’s only theirs

because I don’t know any programmers who have only ever written 1 program (if that were the case everyone would be named Hello World and what would the Grid even be like)

Another interesting distinction between this and any other religions I can think of

in every religion I know about, “making people” is all taken care of by the same god

I think

I don’t KNOW of any RL faith in different gods who make different people

but that is really fascinating to think about too

…..

….HAHAHA ok I just had a conversation with two of my adorkable neurodivergent trans girl polycule-roomies and it wasn’t even ABOUT Tron but it made me make a connection

so all 3 of us were raised Catholic to some degree

And one of them was talking about how when she used to go to church, she would always spend the time thinking about things like…. that built-in snuffer thing above the candle and whether it was meant to automatically put the candle out when it burned down far enough, and how mad she was that she never got to SEE the candle do this because they always replaced them with new candles every time, and how she would really just rather sit in the church for 11 hours watching the candle

And I was like AAAA yes, you know what, we autistics should all just make our OWN religion

But then I was like… the ritual devotions would be toooootally different for each one of us, I think each one of us would have our own whole different god…

… AND we are going to watch a movie about that, my friends, this weekend, which will cause you to understand much of what I have been going on about for the last several monrhs

(she replied immediately that every one of our gods is a fucked up dumpster fire in some way, so I am HIGHLY optimistic that she GETS IT)

Anyway, I’ve figured it out. It’s autism. Autism is the IRL equivalent to that religion. Which is probably one of many many reasons it resonates with me SO HARD