This a great write-up, Andy, thank you. A veritable "banquet' for thought. Hope this doesn't sound too "juvenile" (I think we're close the same age), but I thought of the very large Marvel comic book from the late seventies or thereabouts, that I had (Fantastic Four), of Galactus, showing up to consume the Earth. On top of the Twin Towers, no less (!). But the High Evolutionary (an out-of-the-blue character) had a battle with him there, and galactus pulled a trick maneuver and sent him to the Micro-world. However, Galactus, upon feeding himself of all the Life Force on this Earth, was himself tricked, as the world he consumed was a duplicate, created by the High Evolutionary, so that Galactus basically got sick as hell and went off pretty much with a bad case of gas. I do NOT want to belittle your article with that very lengthy anecdote, by *ANY* means... but I am going to definitely find and watch that movie (spoilers be damned). Would you say that such might be the reason for the "entropy" and deep malaise that seems like a suffocating haze upon us all? I know that around the approach of 2012, I was very much a "prepper" (always have been, sort of). But then..."nothing" happened (?!). I'd been pretty well sure that the Tenth Planet, or Dark Star was incoming. I'd kind of even "hoped" for it. I do sometimes wonder if, well, the "Anunaki", or whomever, perhaps did, indeed, come along and caused such a trauma that we are sometimes living in such a strange age that even as almost anything is now possible, technologically, it could at any moment be wiped out with the push of a button, after the turning of three keys by guys in a sub or silo. That's a sobering thought, indeed. Seems like a collective Life Force has been sapped from this world, for whatever reason, for quite awhile now...Might just be my "mid-life crisis", who knows? lol Much to think on, I really appreciate it, Andy. Love your Work, truly do, like your interviews when I can find them as well. Ghosts in the "machine" that 'Im typing on right now (?). Thank you, Bruder.
Interesting. I would have thought of Donnie Darko in relation to this, but that's the implication of the weird ending of Jacobs Ladder? I guess the notion is he had a compressed time hallucination brought on by the BZ in the last moments before death?
This a great write-up, Andy, thank you. A veritable "banquet' for thought. Hope this doesn't sound too "juvenile" (I think we're close the same age), but I thought of the very large Marvel comic book from the late seventies or thereabouts, that I had (Fantastic Four), of Galactus, showing up to consume the Earth. On top of the Twin Towers, no less (!). But the High Evolutionary (an out-of-the-blue character) had a battle with him there, and galactus pulled a trick maneuver and sent him to the Micro-world. However, Galactus, upon feeding himself of all the Life Force on this Earth, was himself tricked, as the world he consumed was a duplicate, created by the High Evolutionary, so that Galactus basically got sick as hell and went off pretty much with a bad case of gas. I do NOT want to belittle your article with that very lengthy anecdote, by *ANY* means... but I am going to definitely find and watch that movie (spoilers be damned). Would you say that such might be the reason for the "entropy" and deep malaise that seems like a suffocating haze upon us all? I know that around the approach of 2012, I was very much a "prepper" (always have been, sort of). But then..."nothing" happened (?!). I'd been pretty well sure that the Tenth Planet, or Dark Star was incoming. I'd kind of even "hoped" for it. I do sometimes wonder if, well, the "Anunaki", or whomever, perhaps did, indeed, come along and caused such a trauma that we are sometimes living in such a strange age that even as almost anything is now possible, technologically, it could at any moment be wiped out with the push of a button, after the turning of three keys by guys in a sub or silo. That's a sobering thought, indeed. Seems like a collective Life Force has been sapped from this world, for whatever reason, for quite awhile now...Might just be my "mid-life crisis", who knows? lol Much to think on, I really appreciate it, Andy. Love your Work, truly do, like your interviews when I can find them as well. Ghosts in the "machine" that 'Im typing on right now (?). Thank you, Bruder.
Interesting. I would have thought of Donnie Darko in relation to this, but that's the implication of the weird ending of Jacobs Ladder? I guess the notion is he had a compressed time hallucination brought on by the BZ in the last moments before death?
I'm not sure if the BZ caused his hallucination, but yeah, that's the implication.
Frequently feel this way, yes.
Thanks for going to the trouble of articulating it, Andy.
It's been a long time since I've seen this movie. I think I interpreted it as a flashback because that was the common trope at thetime