We are attempting to pacify ourselves with safe media.
True life is full of true horror. Surreal horror.
Movies like Godzilla used to be about representing that horror.
Real atomic energy burns hot and fast, but it looks unnatural. It is a surreal horror. The air looks normal. Your skin begins to peel. The air tastes strange.Â
We’re trying to reduce the horror, and turn these things into fun action stories. Haha, Godzilla punches King Kong, everybody cheers.Â
Godzilla used to be about the horror of seeing an entire city burn from a single bomb.Â
Now the people who dropped the bomb are making movies about Godzilla.
Forest fires are burning so large the smoke blots out the sun.
Oil spills catch the ocean on fire.
Real life is full of surreal horrors.
We turn them into toys and novelties to placate ourselves.Â
Push the fear away.
Nothing needs to change. I don’t need to start going to civic meetings. I don’t need to get rid of my car. We don’t need to rethink society. That’s too much work. We don’t like work. We like to relax and have fun.
Make everything relaxing and fun.
Make the atomic burns relaxing and fun.
There is something bad happening in the world right now.
We are living in Chernobyl and sending our kids out to play in the park.
There is a strange taste in the air. The ground is smoking.
Life feels strange. Surreal. Horrific.
We try to turn that off. We try to turn it into something palatable. Something tasty, or at least something we can choke down.
We cannot stand to see the future, or even the present, for what it is.
So we dress it up. We put makeup over the bruises, fancy bandages where the skin is starting to peel back.Â
We tell the future, and the present, to just pretend that everything’s okay.
We go out dancing. We go to the movies. We go to a nice restaurant.
And all the while, there is a taste in the air.
Like something is burning.Â













