>>16Being Dionysian means knowing that "me" isn't real. Your ego boundaries are an illusion. You are part of Life, fucking itself and eating itself and becoming different shapes of life, but still overall being Life. Your individual desires are motes of dust in a hurricane. You have them for a little while, and then your "self" is erased, and you go back to being one with other Life.
The central theme of SEL is the translation of all of that to the new technological era, with Lain as its avatar — the anthropomorphic personification of something which is fundamentally impersonal.
