#motavation

I used to have DREAMS about shifting and memories of my s/os in them. And now I get nothing, it just feels like its impossible now because I'm getting NOTHING.

In the anime, I don’t know — it felt kind of half-baked. I didn't really get his choice. They kept pushing this "either sorcerers become slaves to humans, or humans become slaves to sorcerers" thing, or that third option: "kill all non-sorcerers and let only sorcerers live."

Considering he’s portrayed as a Buddhist priest and someone who is fundamentally anti-violence in many ways, that whole "genocide" turn felt totally off. I rewatched it and still couldn't wrap my head around why he decided everyone had to die just because of some words from a random blonde lady (Yuki). He’s supposed to be smart — he’s shown time and again to have a good head on his shoulders.

It’s only logical to realize that sorcerers are a minority, and not every child of sorcerers will be a sorcerer, just like a powerful sorcerer can be born to two ordinary parents (he himself is proof of that!). So, if you kill all humans: First, there’s a chance everyone will just go extinct. You’d have to kill every non-sorcerer child born to sorcerers, and the population would just vanish. Second, the need for sorcerers would disappear entirely. We saw that sorcerers emerged as a counter-force to curses, which are born from humans. This means the universe might just take away their powers because they’re no longer needed (action vs. reaction, and all that). So, killing all humans is honestly just peak stupidity.

And so, I was thinking about how to bridge his rejection of the current world, his Buddhist motifs, and his actual motivation in my story. I spent a few hours reading articles on philosophy and religion, and I remembered the "natural chain" concept — how everything exists for a reason. You can’t just kill off everything "bad" so that only "good" remains; the very concepts of good and evil would vanish, and everything would end because there is no pure black or pure white.

If you apply Buddhism to this, everything has its own meaning and interconnectedness. It’s a shifting flow that must exist, and only you decide how to relate to it. You have to experience both the good and the bad to find your own Nirvana.

Then I had a flash of the "Synthesis" ending from Mass Effect.

An idea was born: for him, the ideal wasn’t about who serves whom (the strong vs. the weak). With his worldview, it would be important that everything has its role and everyone has a choice in that role, regardless of what others want. It’s about turning the world from black-and-white to grey. A total synthesis between humans, curses, and sorcerers, without the labels of "he’s bad, he’s good, kill the bad so the good can live."

Like, predators kill non-predators and we accept it because it’s necessary for survival. We have humans who give birth to curses, and curses need energy (or flesh) to survive. This means they also have a right to exist. We can find a way where curses exist in synthesis with everyone else — like predators who get put in their place only if they start "pulling the blanket" too far to their side. Same goes for humans and sorcerers.

No one should have to run around saving anyone just because "that's the rule." Everyone should choose for themselves whether they want to do it or not. If Suguru wanted to tell people to screw off, why should the Jujutsu High laws force him to serve them? And if he refuses, he’s "bad," and if he hangs out with curses, he’s persona non grata and must be killed. And if he kills humans who are actually pieces of trash (like those creeps tormenting the kids in the anime), he’s suddenly "ultimate evil."

Look at Itadori, whom they want to kill just because he’s "evil" by nature. Or Okkotsu and his curse — he didn't do anything wrong, but "oh crap, we gotta kill him just in case!"

Anyway, what I’m getting at is: I think he would fight for a Grey World. A world without these stupid labels and forced "correct" ways of living, because everyone has their own truth. Again, every action has a reaction — that’s how the universe works. This is much closer to Buddhist Pacifism than "I’ll kill everyone."

And if he and Satoru have this "super friendship," the idea that everyone has a choice and a right to their own life would actually bring them closer and make them allies instead of enemies. Because, in fact, Gojo is trying to do the same thing: show that the old rules are obsolete, that we shouldn't divide everything into "pure evil" and "pure good." The world has changed, and so must they.

The most important thing is to protect what matters to you, not to some senile old man living in the last century.

If some super-demon curse wants to destroy the world, there will always be plenty of people who want to protect it for their own survival. But if you don't want to help, then "screw you," that's your right. Just don't expect anyone to help you later. Those are the laws of Karma: if people think you're an asshole, it's on you.

-Nanka

Have a good day/ night !