Talk:The Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie/@comment-35434444-20200427190250/@comment-35434444-20200428123444

Tanya is a person of character.

I suppose you could put what I said that way. This isn't to say that bad table manners are a sign of character. The main point is that she thinks for herself, does not think of life as operating under predefined rules (which means she sees them as tools used by anyone with the wits to exploit them) and being constrained by conceptual boundaires.

This is the fundemental root of her conflict with God because he embodies the rule of social convention. It is important to distinguish the difference between the ultimate reality and God as viewed by the western tradition (a conflation that Tanya herself has made, which is why she considers herself an atheist.) Tanya rejects God because he represents a cosmic dictator -- her hatred that is one in the same with her feelings towards communism -- but adores the aimless order of nature which is substantially identical with her own inner feelings and caprices.

She is forever implicitly seeking a spiritual connection to the ultimate reality because she is not able to conceive of God in any more sophisticated a way; she has no words for it. This is the basis for her ability to inspire others, her isolation, disillusionment with the world of buisness as a Darwinian battle for survival.

This has erroneously lead her to think of herself as locked in a constant struggle with the ground of being itself, when in actuality the friction is derived from the conflict between social preassures and her individual spirit; the latter of which is in fact considered the godhead in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. A position in the rear is not only a place of safety, but also freedom from the rule of God that wants her to be a blind tool of the state.

She enjoys being around other people, but dislikes the inevitable preassures of conformity that arise as a result, leading her to become somewhat isolated.

In other words, Tanya is the most God-fearing person she has ever met, only she's been hiding from this fact her entire life (not to mention her previous life) and has taken out her anger and sadness on other people whilst devising insane and futile plots at the back of her mind to somehow overcome the systems of control being imposed onto her.

And so, relenting from his sport just a little, Being X gave her the rare chance to be reincarnated and see if through the struggles of war she could finally discover the truth.

That she herself is the freedom she has always longed for and the divinity she beileved so strongly was her enemy.