I see the internet, yes, as one element of this evolution to which I am pointing about anime and the canon. I have long been thinking about this whole thing, as a college English professor, focusing on film and literature. This phenomenon is going to grow simply because it is the most democratic avenue for knowledge and truth/s to take. Epistemologically speaking, truth can be clarified so quickly and to so many at one time that 'how we know what we know' is pushed aside by 'when we know what we know'. And, for me, my being sixty years old and trying to discover as a teacher how to communicate this knowledge/truth/s to students is a fundamental part of my profession. So, I suddenly find myself on a site like this, having been introduced to it by a student who is trying to make me understand how he understands a lecture on the relationship between a piece of canon literature and Jacques Derrida's Deconstruction. He sends me here to look at a piece of anime. Now, let's think about this a moment. A sixty year old Caucasian male being introduced for the first time to Japanese anime, a person who grew up with Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Unca Scrooge and Hewey, Dewey, and Louie. Now, I'm watching Ergo Proxy, and suddenly in episode four, there he is: Jacques Derrida, as a central thematic character who represents the existential underpinnings of the entire series.
What is happening is that the generation of the twenty first century is creating a brand new 'next level' of getting knowledge. This is a hugely significant paradigm shift that is the stuff of scholarly dreams. Why? Well, because I am a scholar and find myself compelled by my impulse 'to know' to keep searching for more anime that exemplifies what will come to the future as the latest additions to the canon of world literature. At any rate, that is why you find me on a site like this.
You watch.
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