★ Not a proper review or analysis just some scattered thoughts of why I love this show ★
"People believe, thought Shadow. It’s what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen."
I wish I could experience this show for the first time omg! Currently rewatching it on Tubi and remembering my heartbreak when it got cancelled. I'm going to include a lot of clips so you might as well watch it.
"You want help? Fine. Let me tell you a story. 'Once upon a time, a man got fucked.' Now, how is that for a story? 'Cause that's the story of black people in America. Shit, you all don't know you black yet. You think you just people. Let me be the first to tell you that you are all black. The moment these Dutch motherfuckers set foot here and decided they white, and you get to be black, and that's the nice name they call you.
Let me paint a picture of what's waiting for you on the shore. You arrive in America, land of opportunity, milk and honey, and guess what? You all get to be slaves. Split up, sold off and worked to death. The lucky ones get Sunday off to sleep and fuck and make more slaves, and all for what? For cotton? Indigo? For a fucking purple shirt? The only good news is the tobacco your grandkids are gonna farm for free is gonna give a shitload of these white motherfuckers cancer.
And I ain't even started yet. A hundred years later. You're fucked. A hundred years after that. Fucked. A hundred years after you get free, you still getting fucked out a job and shot at by police.
You see what I'm saying? This guy gets it. I like him. He's getting angry. Angry is good. Angry, gets shit done.
You shed tears for Compe Anansi, and here he is, telling you, you are staring down the barrel of 300 years of subjugation, racist bullshit and heart disease. He is telling you there isn't one goddamn reason you shouldn't go up there right now and slit the throats of every last one of these Dutch motherfuckers and set fire to this ship!
Let the motherfucker burn! Let it all burn!"
"People like the idea that love makes the world go round. It doesn't. You don't lock you doors at night because you love thy neighbor; you deadbolt with reinforced steel because you fear thy neighbor. Fear is order. Fear is control. Fear is safety. Fear is fiction.
Before this moment, people in America did not conceive what an alien spacecraft might look like. They did not believe an alien attack could happen. What made it real was the fear that it could exist and the fact that it was feared so deeply and that it did exist.
Fear is the product of the imagination. It's made up in the mind. The mind can dream and think of anything.
You love fear. You love horror. You pay money for a pair of three-dimensional glasses and popcorn for an hour and a half of anxiety.
Something on earth that keeps people thinking is the idea that it can end at any moment. Fear has no end. Fear is limitless. Fear thrives and feeds on itself, preparing you for calamity, preparing you to believe that the most important things are the most dangerous. If it's real in your mind, it's real in the world."
"This is how men like me pray."
Baroquetech by Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans <3
"You have no idea how vital you are to everything. You are perhaps the most powerful of us all. The embodiment of human innovation, which makes you the bridge from the Old Gods to the New.
Every time there is an evolution in human technology, you evolve along with it, and forget who you really are. Being that you never have your mnemonic of your totem, you forget your origin.
There is no progress without you.
People say this is the age of technology. They're wrong. This is the age of manipulation."
Technical Boy! One of my favorite characters of all time <3
"We have reprogrammed reality. Language is a virus, religion an operating system, and prayers are just so much fucking spam."
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