tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post1935957403259996649..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: Moleman MessiahBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-57174000131378278402022-04-06T08:00:15.079-04:002022-04-06T08:00:15.079-04:00But maybe they're mostly like the people who a...But maybe they're mostly like the people who are real fans of horror entertainment. 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What they seem to be doing seems more terror-driven than that to me.</i><br /><br />I think they are more inspired by Blood Libel narratives than fairy abduction narratives, though one of their 'theories' is that numerous members of the cabal, such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been executed and replaced by clones, so there's your changeling lore.<br /><br />As far as the Shaver Mystery goes, it was a big deal in the Amazing Stories pulp magazine back in the late 1940s. It divided science fiction fandom, with Harlan Ellison being an early detractor, and seemed to be completely overtaken by the UFO craze.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-79045289621256627462021-04-19T00:52:00.435-04:002021-04-19T00:52:00.435-04:00Holy shit. I had never heard of the one about the ...<i>Holy shit. I had never heard of the one about the Mole Children.</i><br /><br />It was a pretty big deal here in the NY Metro Area because a distraught Midwestern stripper, armed with a shitton of knives, was arrested, trying to liberate them from the 'cabal'.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-47837151837782972102021-04-18T12:28:09.076-04:002021-04-18T12:28:09.076-04:00I don't know from the Shaver Mystery (and if i...I don't know from the Shaver Mystery (and if it's inspiring to these confused, dangerous people, I'm probably better off not knowing), but it's fascinating to contemplate all this stuff in some kind of continuum with the very widespread European folklore about fairy kidnapping.<br /><br />Except the fairies left changelings to replace the stolen human children. From the surviving written records of changeling cases, some Brit folklorists speculate that the origin of the idea may be the post-partum physical decline of babies with certain kinds of congenital conditions. IOW, it was an attempt to explain a rare and frightening natural phenomenon.<br /><br />Do you think there's a related thing goingn on with these Q folk? That they're latching onto this complex of insane ideas to explain some RW phenomenon? I don't think I mean just setting up a political scapegoat. What they seem to be doing seems more terror-driven than that to me.<br /><br />But maybe they're mostly like the people who are real fans of horror entertainment. The more horrible, the more entertaining - and more exciting because (sort of) projected onto the real world.<br /><br /><br />Li'l Innocenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12516526103367681109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-62484800670278480492021-04-18T05:37:57.881-04:002021-04-18T05:37:57.881-04:00Holy shit. I had never heard of the one about the ...Holy shit. I had never heard of the one about the Mole Children. <br /><br /> Commander Zaiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11000824454124236774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-78168330147690455592021-04-18T03:38:15.288-04:002021-04-18T03:38:15.288-04:00It's truly amazing how long a shadow it casts ...It's truly amazing how long a shadow it casts on the entire conspiracism culture. <i>I Remember Lemuria</i> really is an ur-text of whackaloonery, perhaps second only to <i>The Protocols of the Elders of Zion</i>.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-1298345276939424882021-04-18T03:25:59.180-04:002021-04-18T03:25:59.180-04:00Massive upvotes for referencing the Shaver Mystery...Massive upvotes for referencing the Shaver Mystery. DocAmazinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06914959367427872105noreply@blogger.com