I knew I was right! This "horror story" is the horror story of the European invasion and contamination of America and the decimation of the original people and landscape of this country. The "new inhabitants" (the ghosts) of this "Murder House" (our country) are, I suggest, the "newcomers"—the Puritan settlers, if you will. They aim to over take the "infantile" and innocent land, with little regard for the lives that are living. Yes!!!!! I knew it!
As I just finished watching this episode, I want to say it was very..."moving," but that sounds weird for a "horror story." I suppose, though, considering some of the horror in U.S. History, there are some very heartbreaking episodes in our past as well. The more I think about it (in my PTSD haze from this semester), Walter Benjamin's writings would probably have been the better choice for analyzing this series rather than Michel Foucault, although both scholars have relevance. Really, in all honesty, the best social theorist to use is Reinhold Niebuhr. Unfortunately, he wasn't one of the critical lenses we had to choose from to do our analysis in American Studies.
More to come as I take it all in. What a frickin' brilliant series this is...I would guess a lot of people don't "get it." But that's the American mentality for you...
As I just finished watching this episode, I want to say it was very..."moving," but that sounds weird for a "horror story." I suppose, though, considering some of the horror in U.S. History, there are some very heartbreaking episodes in our past as well. The more I think about it (in my PTSD haze from this semester), Walter Benjamin's writings would probably have been the better choice for analyzing this series rather than Michel Foucault, although both scholars have relevance. Really, in all honesty, the best social theorist to use is Reinhold Niebuhr. Unfortunately, he wasn't one of the critical lenses we had to choose from to do our analysis in American Studies.
More to come as I take it all in. What a frickin' brilliant series this is...I would guess a lot of people don't "get it." But that's the American mentality for you...
