This in part why the Nietzsche worshippers on Twitter dot com are a big fail. American Christianity (evangelical and fundamentalist) is not “Trad.” It is Baptist, Pentecostal and Charismatic. The anti-Christian goons, like Nietzsche, have never visited a typical American church. They LARP just like the Trads, speaking out if their posterior, spewing out the same (((lies))) against the American churches you’ll hear from shitlibs.
I think a lot of your points culminated for me in #34. It made me remember this moment: in Lawrence of Arabia, Prince Faisal says,
"I think you are another of these desert-loving English. No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert. No man needs nothing."
I think there are still some around who could say the same of Americans and the Wild. For all of [the nation of] America's history, most of its citizens had two options - become a cog in the urban machinery, or plunge into the Wild, seize and slowly smother some small part, thereby becoming one with it, a simultaneous return to the 'natural state' and a measure of immortality. Piece by piece almost all of the Wild was torn apart this way, and now that the second way is out of reach, those Americans yearn to become the Wild without any hope. They fall into the woods, lured by the murmuring songs of creatures and features they know everything about but understand so little that it aches, and leave behind all that makes them civilized, and rational, and human, and become wild men. If they stay that way, they succeed, becoming one of the things that haunts those woods, a Bigfoot that stalks and drives off the men trying to follow in their tracks, to keep the Way.
I came here after seeing your post on twitter about why Mythoamerica was created, to speculate on it. I'm glad I share many of the points you hold here. We're all gonna make it.
if you're interested in a book about Night of the Living Dead as a prophetic vision of the American Underworld refracted through 20th century drive-in cinema, hit me up in about a year. we have some overlapping areas of interest.
I was literally just thinking today while driving in the car with my cousin about how grid the streets are. How it feels like I’m in the chip of a computer, a real labyrinth, the necessity of transport like cars and trains. America is a highly demonic place. It is the largest producer of child pornography in the world. This country was fundamental in creating and maintaining the state of Israel, through blackmail and deception. It is modern day Babylon. Maybe it’s just my paranoia, but there is something so deeply uncanny, about this place. Its lack of humanity and community. Its hyper consumerism and facade. The way we view women as commodities, just things to look good and be controlled. Looking at children as property and nuisances. The maternal and infant mortality rates. Its luxuries being built off the deaths and struggles of people of color. Literally, Wall Street was built on top of the graves and old cities of African Americans. Billboards filled with rose toys and sex shops. The isolation, the meaninglessness and yearning for meaning, freedom, hope, comfortability. The overwhelming self harm, drug abuse, suicide. I could go on and on. May God in Christ save us all
I deeply connected with most everything you have said. Thank you.
This in part why the Nietzsche worshippers on Twitter dot com are a big fail. American Christianity (evangelical and fundamentalist) is not “Trad.” It is Baptist, Pentecostal and Charismatic. The anti-Christian goons, like Nietzsche, have never visited a typical American church. They LARP just like the Trads, speaking out if their posterior, spewing out the same (((lies))) against the American churches you’ll hear from shitlibs.
Good poast. Will subscribe.
This post is a poetic triumph.
I think a lot of your points culminated for me in #34. It made me remember this moment: in Lawrence of Arabia, Prince Faisal says,
"I think you are another of these desert-loving English. No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert. No man needs nothing."
I think there are still some around who could say the same of Americans and the Wild. For all of [the nation of] America's history, most of its citizens had two options - become a cog in the urban machinery, or plunge into the Wild, seize and slowly smother some small part, thereby becoming one with it, a simultaneous return to the 'natural state' and a measure of immortality. Piece by piece almost all of the Wild was torn apart this way, and now that the second way is out of reach, those Americans yearn to become the Wild without any hope. They fall into the woods, lured by the murmuring songs of creatures and features they know everything about but understand so little that it aches, and leave behind all that makes them civilized, and rational, and human, and become wild men. If they stay that way, they succeed, becoming one of the things that haunts those woods, a Bigfoot that stalks and drives off the men trying to follow in their tracks, to keep the Way.
There is so much in this that is absolutely true. you have a rare perception.
Very interesting. Reminds me a bit of John Keel's Mothman and Jim Brandon's Weird America. The gypsies supposedly think America is cursed too.
So good. Bravo.
I came here after seeing your post on twitter about why Mythoamerica was created, to speculate on it. I'm glad I share many of the points you hold here. We're all gonna make it.
Wow 👏
Wow 👏
Wonderful read
The most ‘American’ religion would be Mormonism, wouldn’t it?
Yes, indeed :)
if you're interested in a book about Night of the Living Dead as a prophetic vision of the American Underworld refracted through 20th century drive-in cinema, hit me up in about a year. we have some overlapping areas of interest.
The Early Church were communist in all but name. Deeply weird takes throughout this piece.
I was literally just thinking today while driving in the car with my cousin about how grid the streets are. How it feels like I’m in the chip of a computer, a real labyrinth, the necessity of transport like cars and trains. America is a highly demonic place. It is the largest producer of child pornography in the world. This country was fundamental in creating and maintaining the state of Israel, through blackmail and deception. It is modern day Babylon. Maybe it’s just my paranoia, but there is something so deeply uncanny, about this place. Its lack of humanity and community. Its hyper consumerism and facade. The way we view women as commodities, just things to look good and be controlled. Looking at children as property and nuisances. The maternal and infant mortality rates. Its luxuries being built off the deaths and struggles of people of color. Literally, Wall Street was built on top of the graves and old cities of African Americans. Billboards filled with rose toys and sex shops. The isolation, the meaninglessness and yearning for meaning, freedom, hope, comfortability. The overwhelming self harm, drug abuse, suicide. I could go on and on. May God in Christ save us all
I don't think I've ever seen anyone else conceptualize Bigfoot and etc. cryptids as unbaptized genius loci