Reading the Golden Age arc of Berserk through psychological OS / organizational OS. Griffith as a meaning-generating apparatus, salvation and domination as the same gesture, and the Eclipse as the ritual that converts a community from purpose to resource — with the real-world organizations that repeat the structure.
Salvation and domination begin with the same gesture.
1. Reading it as just dark fantasy is a waste
Reading Berserk as just dark fantasy is a bit of a waste.
Of course, the overwhelming artwork, the violence, the mythic scale, the density of despair — those alone are staggering. But what draws me in particular is the organizational dread drawn into it.
The Golden Age arc, especially — Griffith and the Band of the Hawk — holds a fairly intense structure. In one line, it reads like this:
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