I feel like one could play with that theme in a lot of interesting ways in a way that all the “wow sure is spooky innit? you can’t even comprehend the spookiness! [cliched spooky mouth noises]” ones completely and utterly fail to. Weave in a little narrative fiat via “magic”/paracausality and you can get a solid exaggerated allegory for all sorts of real revelations about how fucked things are, like people being “driven mad” by the discovery that everything’s collapsing around them and no one is lifting a finger to mitigate it in the least, or that the entire system is a monstrous horror that could stop if people would just stop doing that but they won’t and they’ll kill you for telling them to stop. Or just played straight like Disco Elysium does, since some of its most iconic quotes (like the mask of capital or the mazovian socio-economics thought) fit the bill perfectly.
Or just make it a big shitpost where the maddening text is just “things don’t have to be this bad, they can actually be better than this,” but the reader doesn’t get to know that until the end when a communist sees it and goes “no shit” without any of the effects that befell the liberals that read it.
I feel like one could play with that theme in a lot of interesting ways in a way that all the “wow sure is spooky innit? you can’t even comprehend the spookiness! [cliched spooky mouth noises]” ones completely and utterly fail to. Weave in a little narrative fiat via “magic”/paracausality and you can get a solid exaggerated allegory for all sorts of real revelations about how fucked things are, like people being “driven mad” by the discovery that everything’s collapsing around them and no one is lifting a finger to mitigate it in the least, or that the entire system is a monstrous horror that could stop if people would just stop doing that but they won’t and they’ll kill you for telling them to stop. Or just played straight like Disco Elysium does, since some of its most iconic quotes (like the mask of capital or the mazovian socio-economics thought) fit the bill perfectly.
Or just make it a big shitpost where the maddening text is just “things don’t have to be this bad, they can actually be better than this,” but the reader doesn’t get to know that until the end when a communist sees it and goes “no shit” without any of the effects that befell the liberals that read it.