If Stan would be a body part, he would be the heart, keeping the system alive but so vulnerable, the soil for Emotions to grow out of wildly and untamed. Kyle would be the Brain, collection of an endless stream of information, ruled by logic, thinking and thinking until the end.
They just did not fit well together.
ย In which Kyle reflects on his friendship with Stan through the years, or the lack thereof.
Something like two weeks MONTHS ago @ericbroflovski asked me how I personally interpreted Kyleโs ~Moral Character~, and I wrote so many words that I figured it was a waste not to clean them up and organize it into a formal meta post. Full credits to gina/sweeticing, whose input helped refine these thoughts, & who I definitely quote at least once down here.
*rolls up my fucking sleeves, cracks open the whiskey and eats some grapes* Okay,ย whoโs ready to get Extremely Pretentious and take South Park WAY too seriouslyโข.ย
1. PHILOSOPHICAL IDEALISM AND STRUCTURE
So, Kyle is often referred to as an โidealistโ in the sense that he believes, ultimately, that humanity is capable of rising above the ugly aspects of its nature and is drawn back to this belief again and again despite being continuously disappointed. But Iโd go further than the commonly understood definition and argue that Kyle is a Idealist character in the (boring) Philosophical (jargon) sense of the word as well, which is to say that his default view of the world is actually a lot more on the โspiritualโ end of metaphysics than you might expect from a character who often gets pinned as โthe logical oneโ.
๐ฅ There is beauty in destruction๐ฅ 