[UA] Explanations

[Bailey Watts]

Some magnificent bastard wrote:

One of the most powerful reasons to give mundane events,
especially horrific mundane events, an occult cause is to explain
them (at least in the context of the game).  While in our own world
events like Columbine High School, the LA riots, & similar horrors
occur for vague, highly complex, and occasionally completely
inexplicable reasons. In a game we can make it all the work of an
occult conspiracy who can be stopped, thereby stopping further
horrors.  I like being able to do this.  Since none of us have any
chance of influencing events like this in our own world, it's
comforting to be able to explain and deal with them in a game.
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I know this may be anethema, but I don't gofor conspiracies.  There is an 
essential sense that we are approaching the end.  The occult shit is hitting 
every fan in sight and there is no rhyme nor reason to where the particles 
are flying.  The people have been wanting novelty and hankering for more.  
Everything has been building to this and now its all coming down.  Novelty 
feeds upon itself until novelty itself seems dull.  There is no dose of new 
that will cure the jones.  There is no way.  Positive feedback does mojo on 
the earth's psiosphere.  Backlash from novelty but nothing replaces it.  
Traditions destroyed.  New traditions have sting of new without stability.  
Novelty sickness forces discarding of new traditions.  More new traditions 
replace old new traditions keeping novelty sting coming without anymore 
high.  Must invent old tradition since new tradition sting.  Old is still 
gone so we need new old.  Swallow down myths of false history.  Can't be 
original since the novelty created a rush that tore down old traditions and 
establish a distrust.  Feign an adherence though you cannot beLIEve anymore. 
  When there is no stability of tradition false stability must be created.  
Pattern recognition and popular media/culture reference establish a sort of 
stability and connection that the novelty cannot wear away.  This creates 
conspiracitae when patterns are ASSUMED to have meaning.  Straws are 
grasped.  Rational thought is SUPRESSED to facilitate a complex cause/effect 
web.  Post modern evolves into post rational without anyone thinking to 
examine the grim realities that a world such as this creates.  There ceases 
to be any capacity for control over anything, though those who ushered in 
the post-rational Zeitgeist are unable to see the results they have brought 
about in the death of any sort of omniversal cause/effect or karmic 
relationship.  Creating an illusiory control that others have over 
everything cannot make their ability to exert any control over themselves 
any less illusiory.  Even those who sheepishly try to go along with the 
system cannot succeed in their ability to let someone else have the control 
over their lives that they lack.  Noone has control.  Nothing that exists 
can exert control, only ethereal things with no realness exert control, 
things like the stock market.  These things become th only things that are 
real to those who seek to rule or be ruled and they define a new type of 
real.  A sort of hyperreal to quote some French guy.  The only way to 
maintain any sort of control is to not exist or exist in this realm of 
hyperreal.  As chaotes we realize that by acknowledging that real exists on 
a new level means that deep understanding of our own being means that "WE" 
do not exist and in that knowldge we can maintain power, not to control, 
since we can never truly divest ourselves from the illusions that we exist, 
but to ride the Zeitgiest on a wave of laughter for what other way is 
appropriate to greet the knowldge that you don't exist?

On another note I see one specific scene for the movie.  Eponymous throws 
down a dispomancer in a shabby suit.
"Nice suit there.  I'd hate to see you ruin it by soiling yourself."
E. draws a small caliber handgun and gouges out the dispomancers left eye 
with the barrel of the pistol.
"Mister Abel is very upset with some of your antics.  It takes balls to 
stand against him.  You know that?  I only got one question:  Just who the 
hell do you think you are?"
The dispomancer urinates in his pants while squirming on the end of E's gun.
"I thought I told you to stay fashionable when you answer me muthafauck!"
Gunshots and the boozehound slumps over.  Closeup on his back.  Credits go 
by on the tweed as blood slowly soak into the shot.
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