#the violence of Christianity permeating the apparatuses of power.
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#now that I’ve finished the show I need to go more long winded into why I actually care about this damn thing#➤ ooc. ┊ she’s nauseous，she’s hysterical，and she’s exhausted.#it’s so American. it’s SO about America; which makes it flavorfully distinct from the gothic lit that serves as a lot of its foundations.#(there’s also American lit I think being used but for the most part it’s English)#but it’s not a story you could transplant to England without changing the fundamental meaning.#it isss about what our ideals of a household are after the war; how the late 60’s are in resistance of that; how womanhood in the 60’s#is in resistance to that.#the atrocities that America is committing and burying while the show is on the air.#the disfigurement and deforming we were committing in the name of preserving these ideals of Normalcy (economic; political; gender; sexual)#the monsters that we make and inflict on each other#that barnabas is fed on the blood of the poor; the criminal; the sex worker; the itinerant;#(not a uniquely American horror; but still)#we repeat and repeat and repeat — the uselessness of the legal system and the way it condemns the innocent.#the violence of Christianity permeating the apparatuses of power.#the family — bastion of Normalcy; Christianity; capitalism — is liable to corrupt.#the family is violent; incestuous — the family lock each other up in the rooms of the domestic space to die.#god.
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