7 thoughts on “The Bad Place in horror fiction & real life”
Hello I can't remember the last time I commented on the channel its been too long (I'm currently still a patron). Good video! I can relate to how you feel about 'Less than Zero' that novel and 'American Psyscho qualify genre wise as' Transgressive Fiction' which in my experience of reading has been more effective at inducing feelings of horror or disturbance in me; more often than not they're usually more grounded in real life. As an example I've read Hubert Selby Jr's 'The Room' which at the time of reading messed me up more so than any traditional horror I've read.
Ramadan is coming soon and just about the entire Western world believes it “does something” for Muslims. But Islam is entirely different from Christianity. Fasting in Ramadan is compulsory and also socially and/or legally enforced everywhere Sharia law has authority over Muslims, and even where it doesn’t, e.g., Muslim families and communities in the West. When a religion forces you to comply, it’s an entirely different story and mind-f*ck. When you have to pretend to fast, sneak around to eat and lie to avoid shame, punishment or legal action for a whole month, you might just turn out crazier than most. There are probably hundreds of millions of Muslims, including women and adolescent children, who simply don’t want to fast but have to. Consider yourself lucky, Darryl.
This was really interesting! Especially as I am reading Danse Macabre at the moment. I do often feel like we are living in a weird science fiction novel where everywhere is “the bad place” because of technology. You explained that feeling better than I could. I never have found atheism depressing. I never thought of the universe as a machine ( machines, after all, are built for a purpose). I accept that everything was created and exists due to unconscious natural forces. Reality is going to be what it is no matter what I think about it anyway!
This was fascinating and terrifyingly accurate. When you think about it, the image of everyone locked to their phones feels like something from a 50s SF movie – Invasion of the Brain Snatchers maybe. Tobacco probably should have taught us that big business can’t be trusted with our lives.
'2001: A Space Oddyssey' comes to mind as a horror movie that isn't labeled as such. It has the bad place (space), the werewolf (HAL going bad) and the unnamed entity in the form of an alien presence you never get to see.
Hello I can't remember the last time I commented on the channel its been too long (I'm currently still a patron). Good video! I can relate to how you feel about 'Less than Zero' that novel and 'American Psyscho qualify genre wise as' Transgressive Fiction' which in my experience of reading has been more effective at inducing feelings of horror or disturbance in me; more often than not they're usually more grounded in real life. As an example I've read Hubert Selby Jr's 'The Room' which at the time of reading messed me up more so than any traditional horror I've read.
Ramadan is coming soon and just about the entire Western world believes it “does something” for Muslims. But Islam is entirely different from Christianity. Fasting in Ramadan is compulsory and also socially and/or legally enforced everywhere Sharia law has authority over Muslims, and even where it doesn’t, e.g., Muslim families and communities in the West. When a religion forces you to comply, it’s an entirely different story and mind-f*ck. When you have to pretend to fast, sneak around to eat and lie to avoid shame, punishment or legal action for a whole month, you might just turn out crazier than most. There are probably hundreds of millions of Muslims, including women and adolescent children, who simply don’t want to fast but have to. Consider yourself lucky, Darryl.
This was really interesting! Especially as I am reading Danse Macabre at the moment. I do often feel like we are living in a weird science fiction novel where everywhere is “the bad place” because of technology. You explained that feeling better than I could.
I never have found atheism depressing. I never thought of the universe as a machine ( machines, after all, are built for a purpose). I accept that everything was created and exists due to unconscious natural forces. Reality is going to be what it is no matter what I think about it anyway!
This was fascinating and terrifyingly accurate. When you think about it, the image of everyone locked to their phones feels like something from a 50s SF movie – Invasion of the Brain Snatchers maybe. Tobacco probably should have taught us that big business can’t be trusted with our lives.
'2001: A Space Oddyssey' comes to mind as a horror movie that isn't labeled as such. It has the bad place (space), the werewolf (HAL going bad) and the unnamed entity in the form of an alien presence you never get to see.
I'm so behind on these videos. Great video, Darryl.
I have never read this but everybody on booktube recommends it. It is nonfiction, right?