Why yes, there is a vast world devouring monster with its tendrils encircling all of us, and it's plainly visible once you notice it, and it's everywhere. But you come off as insane when you try to tell other people about it.

Is SCP-3125 an allegory for capitalism? Shit.

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[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

"Cold War Christianity" was probably the best known in the West result of this phenomenon, and it's still fucking up multiple countries. There's sort of this narrative in a lot of churches of "the Holy Cold War" and the Cold War as essentially a modern Crusade. It's kind of funny when you take a step back, but if you were raised Catholic, you know exactly what I'm trying to say and the deep "mundane horror" I'm getting at. It's a hell of an interesting "if you know, you know, and if you haven't lived in and seen it, you'd probably think I'm completely insane". I could absolutely write fiction set in a highly reactionary Catholic school, drawing from the horror I perceived attending one, and have people who've never attended one call it either funny or a very strange take on horror as a genre, while people who have just nod and say "yep, that author's one of us".