When the love for a fictional character is brought up, people tend to immediately point out how "one sided" this relationship supposedly is, yet fail to explain exactly how it is that a relationship between two 3D humans is more shared and mutual.
Consider love, when I mention "love" throughout this thread, I'm specifically referring to the romantic variety, and yes I'm fully aware that I'm talking about a chemical/psychological process in the brain(mainly focusing on the psychological aspect here). Wouldn't you say that knowing someone is a prerequisite for being capable of loving them? If so, I'd like to follow from that by arguing that nobody really knows anyone else. It's not that we don't want to understand each other, but rather that we lack the capacity to do so. To understand and truly know another human, you'd have to live their life, feel what it is to be at the culmination of their chain of experience, and there is simply no way to do that without literally being the person in question.
If people don't know each other, upon mentioning their feelings of love for someone else, who is it that they're actually talking about? Simple, their perception and concept of someone else, however this isn't the same thing as actually loving another person. People love what it is that they perceive to be a separate human, but this is a love for an idea which they alone created, not a love for another consciousness, as that is by nature unknowable to them. Even in traditionalism, people loved the ideas of family, marriage, and God. Devotion to a structure, or to God, these aren't examples of love for one another, human to human.
Now to get to my point, I really must ask, what exactly is the difference between loving a fabricated concept of someone else, and loving a "fictional" character? Based upon my understanding, the primary difference is that the latter is simply far more genuine. As someone who doesn't exist in the real world, at least not outside of your own mind, is someone who you are capable of understanding since they can't really be separated from you. You love her for who she really is, since your understanding of her can't be challenged by the presence of a real person's body and consciousness, whom your idea of her would otherwise stem from, as is the case with love for 3D. This is all doubly true if it's a character who you alone created, but is still entirely applicable regardless.
So to me, when normies mention that love for a waifu isn't real, it seems as though it's a far more honest and shared experience than any sort of love they believe they're feeling for a separate human.
Consider love, when I mention "love" throughout this thread, I'm specifically referring to the romantic variety, and yes I'm fully aware that I'm talking about a chemical/psychological process in the brain(mainly focusing on the psychological aspect here). Wouldn't you say that knowing someone is a prerequisite for being capable of loving them? If so, I'd like to follow from that by arguing that nobody really knows anyone else. It's not that we don't want to understand each other, but rather that we lack the capacity to do so. To understand and truly know another human, you'd have to live their life, feel what it is to be at the culmination of their chain of experience, and there is simply no way to do that without literally being the person in question.
If people don't know each other, upon mentioning their feelings of love for someone else, who is it that they're actually talking about? Simple, their perception and concept of someone else, however this isn't the same thing as actually loving another person. People love what it is that they perceive to be a separate human, but this is a love for an idea which they alone created, not a love for another consciousness, as that is by nature unknowable to them. Even in traditionalism, people loved the ideas of family, marriage, and God. Devotion to a structure, or to God, these aren't examples of love for one another, human to human.
Now to get to my point, I really must ask, what exactly is the difference between loving a fabricated concept of someone else, and loving a "fictional" character? Based upon my understanding, the primary difference is that the latter is simply far more genuine. As someone who doesn't exist in the real world, at least not outside of your own mind, is someone who you are capable of understanding since they can't really be separated from you. You love her for who she really is, since your understanding of her can't be challenged by the presence of a real person's body and consciousness, whom your idea of her would otherwise stem from, as is the case with love for 3D. This is all doubly true if it's a character who you alone created, but is still entirely applicable regardless.
So to me, when normies mention that love for a waifu isn't real, it seems as though it's a far more honest and shared experience than any sort of love they believe they're feeling for a separate human.
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