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calamondin Since: Dec, 2011
09/13/2015 18:55:07 •••

Incredibly vivid Lovecraftian horror for the post-Information Age

Do newscasters exist? Where do they get their stories, besides fever dreams, clairvoyant scrying and the occasional prophecy? Sometimes we see pictures of them "on the scene", or in a war torn country, but the vast majority of information we receive in daily life is alienated from its context. Does this food cause cancer? Do vaccines cause autism? Is the moon made out of cheese, or gunpowder? Maybe, who can possibly say?

In the second millennium, there is no need to worry about Cthulhu or Nyarlathotep, we have Exxon-Mobile and Google and Amazon and Mc Donalds and Whole Foods. We have corporate sponsors that murder so that they can make a profit, we have people that are so privileged that once they inherit their political dynasties, they can lazily destroy hundreds of thousands of lives in a far away country because said entitled manbabies are scared of terrorists (or freedom fighters, more accurately).

Is the "Vague, Yet Menacing, Government Agency" on our side? Are they enemies, or allies? In a confused, abstract world such as ours, it doesn't matter: they are both and neither; "mu".

Our neoliberal, postglobalized world is more absurd than anyone can say, Lovecraft only saw the top of the iceberg, because he lived before the Internet or other truly mass media memeculture vectors.


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