The Blackberry Walk

Lupin the III is just brilliant. We all try to live such virtuous lives by following the rule book and doing the right thing, but few would say Lupin is 'evil' or a bad person. It is our Christian conception of evil and evil's relation to the law which holds us back since to break the law isn't to be a bad person. The motif pops up through fiction across time such as Les Miserables and Oliver Twist. Ethics is a kind of perspectival knowing wherein one sees the ethical landscape through one's own eyes, one's own context, however the law is more so procedural knowing wherein a list of rules are stated out to us. Lupin gets it. Zenigata gets it too. Zenigata would happily break any law in pursuit of Lupin, ignore any ICPO ruling to achieve his goal. Neither of them are possessed by an unshakable feeling of gravity and serious in their life. Their time shared is spent playing. Driven by passion flowing out of their souls, they are adults playing, laughing cosmically at the whole performance. The rest of the world is anal about following ridiculous procedure and rules but they understand it on a deeper level some how. In Daoism, resisting the flow of nature is what causes discontent and suffering. To deny the drive of one's soul to 'play' the game of life is to only make life boring for yourself. the play circuits are built in for a reason. The Christian ethic of no laughing in church is how we are expected to live through life. Take your school work seriously, think hard and deeply about finding a job. But to just play at each role, have some fun and realise that you're just putting on a facade is what's important. Lupin and Zenigata have something very special; a calling, a vocation. To find one's vocation, or inner voice, is to find what is meaningful. To pursue it is to find what is fun. And wouldn't it be sad to pass through life, fighting its currents and not having any fun, the very emotion which divines the direction of the current.