I really dislike the whole “Elias is a capitalist” thing because it equates fear to capital when it’s not really accurate. and it doesn’t really make sense when it comes to Jon. is he a capitalist too? even more since his whole thing is collecting statements/fear. but a pettier reason is that we do have avatars who are also capitalists. Peter Lukas is right there! he sacrifices his employees, he was even a landlord at some point!
ESPECIALLY because it is kinda impossible for him to do what he does and continue to meaningfully accumulate capital. archiving and storage space is expensive!!! and because the Institute is not considered reputable they likely do not have much in grants and funding but they are still able to continue to take in not only documented statements of everyone who walks in the door and wishes to make one but also large artifacts, and then continues to have money in order to do research on those artifacts and on validating statements! while they do likely have some grant funding or investor funding, in all likelihood a ton of this comes out of jonah’s pocket! like please yall im begging you to realize that while both academia and archiving are important neither of them are cheap within our current systems
The hilltop made me feel so many things that I can barely process right now at almost 1 am after a long eventful beautiful day (not to mention that I can’t say much because I don’t want to spoil anything) but I just want to say I loved it so much!
The work gone into it was clearly amazing from all sides, directing, acting, set design, lighting, music, it all came together to tell this otherworldly familiar yet alien story and I’m so so happy to have been there. Thank you to everyone who worked on this I will treasure this night forever ♥️
I cannot wait for everybody else to see it as well!! (There’s a lot to unpack there I assure you)
I also can’t stop thinking about Jonah Magnus. Jonah brainrot is real. Help me
I’m afraid I am the worst person to help in this matter my dear moot (especially now oh god) so I can only make this worse
I’m always available to yap about him though! I’ve been dying to make some proper posts about him and I will as soon as I’m finished with my stupid thesis
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