Sometimes I truly wonder if people are OK in their heads:
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Clarissa's Blog 
“if people are OK in their heads”
Short answer….. no.
I’m incapable of following a religion but I’ve learned to recognize the neo-pseudo-religions and now covid/pandemics are one of them.
Seems dumb, if you want to follow a religion then it makes a lot more sense to go with a proven brand with solid market share rather than a risky start-up.
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Some people are definitely not right in their heads.
The interesting thing here, is that for that to be on a library shelf, required an unbroken chain of people not-right-in-the-head, from the librarians who do the book-buying, to every person at the publisher who handled it from idea to print, to the illustrator, and all the way back to the author. There were multiple people in that process who had vetos and did not exercise them.
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I think it’s about the market: someone (not right in the head) will buy it.
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Librarians, apparently.
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“an unbroken chain of people”
Acolytes…. keepers of the sacred flame when it seemed it might go out….
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I begin to understand the traditional reaction of governments to new religious movements.
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“traditional reaction of governments to new religious movements”
Is there anything more annoying than a new religion? The climate freaks who block traffic, the trans freaks who want to turn kids into sex-workers in the name of…. something, those who mask to keep the evil spirits at bay…. yikes! just insufferable, the lot of them….
I’m beginning to think in old Rome I’d be cheering on the lions…
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It’s a long and continuous tradition– I mean, how many wacky historical episodes like Jan van Leyden or the post-plague flagellant processions got violently suppressed… and now get so little coverage in history books that hardly anybody knows about them? They’re fascinating reading, though– I remember encountering Norman Cohn’s Pursuit of the Millenium back in high school, and it was like the coolest surreal horror novel I’d ever read.
And now I think back on it often, like… huh. I guess we’re not done with collective insanity after all.
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It seemed obvious over a decade ago that “zombie survivalism” was really about treating people as The Other and then finding clever ways to contain them, as if everyone deserves “Keter” classification as a dangerous anomaly by The SCP Foundation.
If you looked at American culture at that time, you’d have seen “zombie survivalism” as a way where people on the Left and the Right could scratch that itch of perversely classifying the people they don’t like as The Other so they can imagine horrible things to do and being done to them.
So if you carry that core “infectious idea” forward, that “zombieism” is a pestilence on the land and therefore must be contained, stamped upon, and eventually eradicated, what is “pandemic pentacostalism” other than a medicalised and ritualised form of “zombieism” from that previous decade?
Now the zombies don’t come in Hollywood garish forms, they live right next to you, and (the horror, the horror) they might just look like you!
Go ahead, scare your kids now in advance of Halloween, The Church of Sixth Day Pandemic Pentacostalism awaits your preservation of the faith! 🙂
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Oh, dang. I always thought the zombie thing was a not-so-subconscious shadow-antipathy toward mindless consumerism.
I can see how it works as othering, too.
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