| | | There has always been a thread of cult behavior running through the warp and weft of American society. While Australia was settled by petty criminals, the American colonies were settled by extreme entrepreneurs and fringe cultists. Petty criminality is often because of circumstances and changes with them, fringe cultists are just crazy and is often the gift that keeps on giving across generations. I won't argue over where the extreme entrepreneurship weighs in on that spectrum. Periodically, mass psychosis breaks out and the crazies grab the wheel for a while. People with agendas and not the slightest shreds of ethics, use the psychoses to enrich themselves and increase their power. When the general population gets sick of the violence and insanity, they get driven back to the margins and the cycle starts over again. Often there is a strong, fundamentalist religious element. Like during the first and latest Great Awakening(s). But not always, the Red Scare come to mind. Regardless, mindless violence, scapegoating and other ways to destroy and upend innocent lives are exploited with vigor. With mass amnesia following and the eventual whitewashing of what exactly happened.
It really isn't that interesting of a story. Not only is the plot predictable and the resolutions unoriginal, the characters are two dimensional cutouts with unrelatable motivations. A negative rating on the Freshness Meter. |
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