BACKROOMS: LIMINAL SPACE HORROR EXPLAINED

The Cholo Church is the true church

“The true church is Chicano Church, bro.”

King James was a Black person

“That's King James right there.”

Lucretia's identity challenges historical narratives

“Lucretia's a black as hell. Lucretia.”

Creative works can transcend technologies and identities

“shout out to Dr. Evo with yet another amazing Mormon Space Wives remix.”

Critiques Ruslan's appearance and influence in the online space.

“I'm tired of his face and his broccoli hair.”

Questions mainstream narratives about Iran's role in the Middle East.

“Iran did not destroy the Middle East.”

Expresses excitement about an upcoming movie on back rooms.

“I'm actually excited about. I think it's going to be a really good movie.”

Liminal spaces reflect corporate nihilism and a detachment from human experience.

“the back room. It's the liminal space, son.”

The idea of liminal space resonates because of the emptiness in the corporate world.

“the meaninglessness of a corporate lifestyle”

The aesthetic of liminal space connects with nostalgia for the 1980s and 1990s.

“everyone felt that the lore of the back rooms... was necessarily connected to the eighties and nineties”

The corporate world’s anti-human ethos leads to a dehumanized environment.

“the corporate world had as its underlying engine and ethos an anti-human idea the entire time”

Things like dead malls serve as eerie reflections of a corporate liminal space.

“the dead mall... is an eerie corporate liminal space”

The nostalgia for human-centered spaces is reflected in the emptiness of modern corporate structures.

“there's no people in the back rooms”

The phenomenon of liminal space reflects existential themes in modern civilization.

“it's almost like... a existential, how did he put it, he said, it's industrial Gothic or corporate Gothic.”

The 'Backrooms' concept reflects modern fears about reality and corporate aesthetics.

“to just kind of play around with looking into, abandoned buildings or abandoned, um, cargo stuff.”

'Severance' illustrates split consciousness influenced by corporate structures.

“it's actual like split, you know, multiple personality disorder, but it's engineered by a mega corporation”

The Tavistock Institute has historically studied split consciousness and social control.

“the Tavisock Institute, which was the first to really study MPD DID through studying shell shock”

Modern corporate aesthetics mirror the nihilistic ethos of Soviet brutalism.

“corporate mega structure, monopoly capitalism's ethos is exactly the same as the Soviet brutalist ethos.”

Vaporwave critiques corporate culture through a layer of parody.

“vaporwave was a layer of parodying all of this by turning it into a critique of itself.”

The concept of liminal spaces resonates with those who grew up in the 1980s due to nostalgia and current societal transitions.

“if you grew up in the eighties, you were, you resonated with this very, very well.”

Dystopian themes in 80s media predicted today's unfolding dystopia.

“there was within the zeitgeist, a prophetic sense that this is coming.”

Modern culture seeks to erase the past as a means to control individuals.

“what about wiping out and destroying the idea of the past?”

The ideology affecting identity is rooted in denying one's past.

“Part of that ideology is there was no past.”

This erasure of the past connects to a Maoist strategy.

“the presupposition of all of the dystopia has to be a Maoist idea of erasing all the past.”

Modern media encourages a focus on the immediate, further disconnecting people from their past.

“It's all about squeezing the timeframe smaller and smaller.”

The focus on immediate experience undermines meaningful personal narratives.

“you're just another piece of the office furniture that gets replaced once you're no longer useful.”

The backrooms serve as a metaphor for the meaningless and corporate-controlled nature of reality.

“the backrooms are really also kind of fake.”

The back rooms concept reflects a deeper archetype and critique of modernity.

“I suspect, and the art films and the project here, right?”

Strange loops illustrate the complexity of the self and consciousness.

“a strange loop is this idea from one of these sort of genius type characters, Douglas Hofstadter.”

Materialism fails to explain the nature of consciousness and self.

“We all know the problems with materialist reductionist views, so I'm going to skip ahead a little bit more.”

Godel's incompleteness theorem represents a limit to what can be explained rationally.

“Gerdell's response was, I can prove from mathematics itself that mathematics cannot explain all reality.”

The back rooms represent a horrific realm linked to existential dread and trauma.

“It's existential dread and corporate nihilism.”

Corporate nihilism is an aspect of the back rooms experience.

“Corporatism is innately thus in the presentation of the back rooms.”

The Matrix illustrates Gnostic themes relevant to the interpretation of modern reality.

“it's a neo-Gnostic presentation, but there's still some truths within the idea of the matrix.”

Exploration of liminal spaces like the back rooms is linked to narratives in literature like 'House of Leaves.'

“there was a novel about this, which I had not heard of, uh, called house of leaves.”

'The Prisoner' reveals important truths about surveillance and control in society.

“This is actually real, right? This is based on a real place.”

The show mirrors current geopolitical structures established post-Cold War.

“The Cold War would produce a dialectic that would result in a synthesis of a perfect controlled corporate world order.”

Surveillance in 'The Prisoner' models real-world espionage communities and their patterns of control.

“the whole village is run by a kind of all seeing eye surveillance system that doesn't allow you to leave the village.”

Liminal space horror reflects a trend within modern horror films.

“that's kind of taking over horror now that is interesting.”

David Lynch has set a precedent for liminal space horror in cinema.

“David Lynch also was doing liminal space horror before everybody else for sure.”

'It Follows' is a classic representation of liminal space horror.

“of course, obviously it follows. That's a classic.”

'Mandy' stands out as one of the best in liminal horror films.

“I can't believe they didn't put Mandy on here, man.”

Found footage horror films have significant limitations, but some, like 'As Above, So Below', can be surprisingly effective.

“I absolutely hate found footage horror movies and I, that's why I didn't want to watch as above, so below, but it was actually really good.”

Aviloop's marketing is suspicious and could indicate illegal activity.

“This just seems like... a criminal operation running under a front, right?”

Aviloop's operations appear to combine aviation services with sexual exploitation.

“it's got to be something crazier than that. Like maybe they're trafficked or something like that.”

Nadia Marinko's involvement complicates the narrative around Aviloop.

“wasn't this the chick connected to Jeff Stein?”

Nadia Marinko transitioned from victim to active participant in Epstein's operations.

“Nadia became his self-described sex slave.”

Ruslan's strategy of engaging Orthodox viewers has shifted due to their overwhelming positive engagement.

“...the comments are about becoming Orthodox.”

Ruslan's change in approach reveals a deeper division between Orthodox beliefs and his marketing tactics.

“...they don't support my marketing goals.”

Ruslan is disingenuous in his representation of Orthodox Christianity.

“Ruslan is just a total liar and he's a total marketing grifter.”

Ruslan misrepresents Orthodoxy through schismatic figures.

“that dude is not an Orthodox priest.”

'Back rooms' are associated with the collective unconscious.

“that's why the back rooms would be associated with or connected to the collective unconscious.”

Liminal spaces are relevant to personal experiences of dreams.

“a lot of my dreams, I especially when they're recurring dreams, there's like areas and places that you can return to.”

The Backrooms are akin to hell and corporate disorientation.

“So the back rooms are just hell. It's just corporate hell, basically.”

The concept of Theseus relates to the nature of the Backrooms.

“That's why I'm saying it's like the Theseus story, right?”

His view on Memento is largely negative after several attempts to appreciate it.

“I'm not the one person that doesn't like Memento.”

The film 'Toys' suggests themes connected to MKUltra.

“I bet you 100 % this is some straight up LSD, MKUltra, mind control.”

He is the 'OG of liminal space backrooms'.

“OG of liminal space backrooms for sure.”

He recommends 'Obsession' as a quality horror film.

“I recommend the movie obsession. It's one of the best horror flicks in the last 10 years.”

Palomism offers esoteric thoughts in Christianity.

“Palomism is that.”

The Armenian Apostolic Church is in schism but shares similarities with Orthodoxy.

“they're in schism, so they do have a lot of things in common with us.”

Derek Myth Vision's content negatively impacted faith.

“thank you for destroying him.”

Discusses the concept of liminal space horror as it relates to backrooms.