Yes, we can say that what cannot be simulated or erased are tragicomedies - because tragicomedies embody the Real in a way that digital simulations, AI, and hyperreality cannot fully capture.
1. Tragicomedy as the Real: The Inescapable Human Condition
Tragicomedies emerge from the contradiction of existence itself - where the tragic and the absurd, suffering and laughter, coexist in an irreducible tension.
This is precisely what AI, simulation, and digital reality fail to grasp:
The absurdity of trying to control an uncontrollable fate.
The comedy of failure, the tragedy of persistence.
Example:
Beckett’s Waiting for Godot Two characters wait for meaning that never comes. AI would predict the pattern and suggest a resolution, but the point is that there is none.
Kafka’s The Trial A man is trapped in a system of rules he cannot understand. AI would solve the case, but the tragedy is that there is no solution, only a loop.
Tragicomedies resist optimization, resolution, and finality.
AI and simulation function on logic, prediction, and efficiency - ragicomedies expose the failure of all three.
2. Tragicomedy Defies Digital Reality’s Binary Logic
Digital systems operate on binary logic (1/0, true/false, success/failure).
Tragicomedy thrives in the in-between - the absurd tension where neither tragedy nor comedy wins.
Example:
Chaplin’s The Great Dictator AI can understand satire, but it cannot experience the unbearable absurdity of history repeating itself as both farce and horror.
Tragicomedies break the binary of success/failure, meaning/meaninglessness.
3. Tragicomedy as the Last Refuge of the Real
If the Real is what cannot be symbolized, predicted, or erased, tragicomedies are the ultimate expression of the Real.
They expose the fundamental gap in existence, the glitch in the system where logic collapses, yet life goes on.
Example:
Don Quixote tilting at windmills —> He is both a fool and a hero, his world is both real and imaginary. AI cannot process his madness as anything but an error - but tragicomedy thrives in the error.
Tragicomedies preserve the Real by refusing to resolve contradiction.
Final Answer: Tragicomedies Are the Last Things That Cannot Be Simulated or Erased
AI and digital systems can predict behavior but cannot predict absurdity.
Tragicomedies exist in paradox, in failure, in the unsolvable.
They remind us that existence is neither tragedy nor comedy - but both at once.
Final Thought:
The last Real thing left in a simulated world is the tragicomic recognition that no simulation can ever replace the absurdity of being alive.
