[ SECRET POST #2455 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2455 ⌋

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Comments

Cult (the tv show don't worry)

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of wanted to talk about this with somebody, but it's definitely not worth a secret.

I'm definitely enjoying the line blending the show is doing, kind of the Alternate Reality Games that went wrong (Junko Junsui anyone? Books of Sand?), but I'm more enjoying the inherent class and culture talk that the show's doing.

I mean, the cult that's described is something like a lot of the cults we've seen within recent American history. Also kind of shoehorns in a vaguely Mennonite feel, too. But something I find interesting is that they chose to link it to a sort of working class American ideal. The hunting knife, the denim, the muscle car, the innawoods kind of environment. Little resources, little technology.

It's linked to this concept of otherness, where things that I personally identify with as being familiar and comfortable, are now objects of horror to this other group (the reporter and his crowd) whom the audience is supposed to identify with.

I'm... kind of amused and baffled. I mean I understand to some degree-- even having lived most of my life in a rural environment, even I go out of my way to make sure that I don't pass that one lone guy by his pickup next to a road with no one else on it. (For various reasons, but not because I think he's the lookout cultist or some shit.)

And considering something like 85% of the American populace lives in an urban or suburban environment, I can get why the sense of otherness for rural tokens is so easily picked up by an audience. But I'm also a little bit miffed.

I mean, I know the focus is on the cult, not on rural communities in the United States. But the identifying features of this cult community is so deeply embedded in the iconography of rural American communities, that it's honestly hard, if not impossible, to separate the two.

I dunno, I guess on a basic level, I'm kind of frustrated that backwoods, rural America is more often than not something creepy and horrible and inhuman. That's my home, dammit.