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Distorted worship ultimately becomes monstrous.

he draws correlations between our worship and our worldview (or social imagination), between our desires and our identities.

monster helps to motivate society to overcome obstacles and

adhere to societal standards, whilst the human is necessary to the monster’s existence. The

human is the one who categorises the monstrous Other as ‘monster,’ giving a name to their

condition; without humans, there would be no monsters.

The monsters in the woods, dressed in deep, rich reds, the things “we do not speak of,” are as much Ichabod’s Headless Horseman, a personification of rural intolerance, as they are Dubya’s WMDs—the threat that’s always supposedly waiting right around the corner but is ultimately fictitious

The Village , a group of disillusioned 20th-century support-group members choose to retreat from what they see as a violent, baffling urban present into a simulacrum of a 19th-century agrarian commune, and in their attempts to escape violence, end up creating their own form of it.

20th-century political radicalism begetting the search for 19th-century socialist utopia, which in turn produces 17th-century colonialist fundamentalism.

pseudo-mythological framework