Toy Story presents consciousness not as blessing but as loathsome curse

Evidence

Tiso noticed something peculiar about the desire of the toys in the Toy Story series: “what they like best is to be played with by children. But it so happens that at those times they are limp and inanimate; as is the case whenever they are in the presence of people, their spark abandons them, their eyes become vacant.” It’s as if the message of the Toy Story films rhymes with that of Ligotti’s pessimistic tract: consciousness is not a blessing bestowed on us by a kindly toymaker standing in for a beneficent God, but a loathsome curse. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 291

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the earlier ‘Ballard grounded his method in psychoanalysis’ chapter-theme — consciousness as curse is the pessimistic mirror of Ballard’s eroticized objectification. — connects to: Puppet horror stems from consciousness revealing cosmic uselessness, not malice — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 282

Broader Connections

• Puppet horror stems from consciousness revealing cosmic uselessness, not malice #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 282