39/ LOKI

I'd like to draw attention to a very interesting series called LOKI. What caught my attention was its main idea, which runs through it across both of its seasons. I think its creators managed to successfully bring to the younger generation a very important contrast of philosophical reflections concerning individualism and collectivism. Thanks to this contrast, and the issue it raises, it becomes a little easier for the younger generation — and still, for many disoriented people — to find their bearings in today's world.

I understand that each of us has our own point of view on the situation, our own understanding, so I assume that even though many of you may have already seen this series, you may not have grasped its meaning, its added value, the way I did. My goal in this article is to draw your attention to its main storyline, which centers on debating the "flow of time." Even though the series focuses on the issue of a multitude of universes and their variants across time, let's try, for a moment, to imagine that this is simply a metaphorical depiction of the issue of a multitude of our own thoughts across time. Just as the universe can branch across time, so too can our thoughts branch.

In the series, there is an organization called the TVA, which watches over the "flow of time" (the flow of thoughts) to keep it from branching, to keep variants from arising that might begin fighting each other. From the very beginning, the main character of the series sees this TVA organization as fascist, as evil, as mistaken, and gradually begins to transform and change it.

I won't write any further about the series here, so as not to spoil the final experience of the last episode for you; let's just ask ourselves whether, perhaps, we too, here on Earth, currently have multinational corporations that are trying, with all their might, to prevent the branching of thoughts. Whether the whole "cancel culture" isn't itself built on the censorship of every inconvenient branch that deviates from the main flow of thought, the so-called "mainstream." Whether it is really so important to help multinational corporations eliminate these branchings, out of fear that otherwise our world, our new world order, would collapse? In its ending, the series shows us another possibility as well — a brighter alternative to our reality, a different scheme for the shaping of the universe, one that we, as humanity, are surely walking toward.

Juraj Tušš