The sword hanging over nearly every episode is either our protagonist Mulder breaking the news to the public or the monster getting out. In either case, American normalcy dies. The world of consumerism is traded for a plunge into reality. No one wants this to happen but... /2

If we were to take the show seriously, it's practically inevitable. The government (as villains) in the story aren't overlords. They are one bad day away from the whole thing falling into shambles. The empire is crumbling. Those not blinded can feel it in their bones. /3

And to take a far more serious tone for a moment, we are living in the reality where the monsters are breaking through. I make this comparison not to make light of the tragedy, but to highlight that the modern world is incapable of dealing or addressing with these things. /4

We are currently living through the times where the X Files monster gets out. Terrible, dangerous things are prowling out there. Things that are shattering norms and unraveling society. The show always ends with the status quo, but we are living post the status quo. /5

I think it is the duty of artists to confront the problems of the times they live in. This is why I drew the connection. I don't view fiction as childish. And I pray my comparison is not distasteful. The modern man is realizing good and evil actually exists. /6

This destroys the old world where we could contain the uncomfortable to an episode on television. It's viscerally present. We can't dismiss it come the next forty-five minutes. We have to live with the consequences. /7

And this comes to my lighter point. RW art, if it is to be meaningful, cannot take a status quo attitude to its commentary. You must depict the world after the X Files episode. There's no reset button. Yes, the horrific exists, and it can't be shuffled as *problematic* /8

The easy part for RW artists is that liberals already voiced every criticism of their ideology. They just pretended they had an answer and shoved the problem offstage. RW art is just picking up where they couldn't go any farther. /end

Would love your thoughts on this @BrianNiemeier @KingEmprPenguin @UnicornFren @ThomBrady5 @TheBlackHorse65

@HariSel57511397 Is the syndicate in the show supposed to represent a reactionary element? They resemble an old-fashioned fraternal organisation, they like to meet at horse-races, their heavy hitter killed JFK & MLK. Otherwise quite Lovecraftian in theme.

@Ingold321 What the writers intended was something far different, but the Syndicate are the more competent managerial class slowly disintegrating. They are the iteration of the Left still able to keep things from going crazy.

@HariSel57511397 RW? Someone help me understand what is RW?

@HariSel57511397 There are a few people out there proving to the public that many of the X files episodes were non-fiction…..

@HariSel57511397 Fantastic thread — and I’ve never even seen a single episode of the X Files, but this is a perfect explanation of the post-Enlightenment reversal that’s happening. If you pretend for centuries, to an ever-increasing degree, that monsters don’t exist because nothing is too

@HariSel57511397 Your thread reminds me of the UFO/DARPA and other "projects" discussed on Rogan. The truth (supernatural) is stranger than fiction (UFO), and so it's suppressed. For anyone familiar with pre-NASA rocket scientist, Jack Parsons, he summoned demons.

@HariSel57511397 Ironically, the show was made by someone who is decidedly not on the right, but he is/was at least honest enough to allow space to acknowledge that other views exist.

@HariSel57511397 Supernatural of course perfected this by concluding that you have to commit tax evasion and kill the hot vampire chick.

@HariSel57511397 Chris Carter’s lesser-known series Millennium deals more overtly with “spiritual realities,” particularly in its second season.

@HariSel57511397 I read RW as “Real World” (as opposed to “fictional entertainment”) and this interpretation is surprisingly apt.

@HariSel57511397 Don't forget World of Darkness (Vampire: the Masquerade/Requiem, Werewolf: the Apocalypse/Forsaken, etc), where the world is not what it seems, it's darker, more tragic, conspiratorial from the bottom up, and the intersection of X-Files/WoD, Millennium.

@HariSel57511397 I'll have to rewatch the series again now

@HariSel57511397 I like this analysis a great deal. I never watched the X Files but I heard all about it from friends & the media & Reddit. Isaac, you have a rare talent for interpreting modern cultural entertainment. 🫡

@HariSel57511397 Great thread, I'd love to watch that post status quo show.

@HariSel57511397 @AmandaMilius I wanted answers that I never got

@HariSel57511397 @myth_pilot loved the series and watched it multiple times, despite the fact that they mocked Trump at the end

@HariSel57511397 Great thread. I’m expecting the remake to be decidedly not RW unfortunately.

@HariSel57511397 Ironically at the time it was considered a lib coded show, and when they did the reboot seasons in 2017ish there were a bunch of Very Serious Media Pieces talking about how "problematic" it was to bring it back

@HariSel57511397 @Geespot187

@HariSel57511397 It's kinda surreal to live in a time where X files is considered to be right-wing coded...

@HariSel57511397 This is great.

@HariSel57511397 Brilliant thread. X-Files might be my favorite show of all time. As a fan who watched it in the 90s, it certainly shaped my worldview.

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@HariSel57511397 10/10 post

@HariSel57511397 Vince Gilligan was one of the major players in The X-Files, who went on to creating Breaking Bad. BB was written in the same style as The X-Files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

@HariSel57511397 Banger thread. Love the X-Files. I would definitely read anything you wrote on following the end of an X files episode to its logical conclusion. In fact I may also have to try that prompt