User blog comment:The Milkman/Madness and Genius/@comment-2076032-20121209105806/@comment-2076032-20121209183344

It really does, actually, to get a full understanding of what those endings mean. Believe it or not, there are themes there deeper than just "synthesis, destroy and control". Each ending could represent the various moral ambiguities of conscious decision making - sacrifice the many for the few, the few for the many, or yourself. You can choose to see it as a simple set of three endings for a story, but that is still only one perspective. Others exist, and denying that, or denying anyone else's meaning as "wrong", is to deny human nature, and to deny the subjective and cultural context that meanings can have, and the intertextuality of the endings with the lore itself.