hey real quick can anybody help me find this image that Iβve seen before here on tumblr. it looks like this
the button doesnβt necessarily sayΒ βElucidate the Raptureβ but it does say something thatβs kind of lengthy and has religious connotations. the woman pushing the button has an expression of indescribable smugness. there might be other buttons on the machine (?) she is pressing.
FOUND IT
Oh this is only the first image in the Eschatron 9000 Series
and the finale, because of the Tumblr image limit
thanks this is part of an even grander incomprehensibleness than I could have expected
I cannot believe that this is a website where you can ask βhey i think i saw a weird image onceβ and put a bad stick figure drawing of it and someone will be like βoh yeah thatβs the first installment of a 12-part post-ironic apocalypse fever dream photoshop seriesβ and just hand you a dozen of the most unhinged images youβve ever seen in your life, that still have a better three act structure than most modern cinema
I dont think thats the whole photosetβ¦. I found one more
But from what i can gather thats Crystal Thierry, also known as page73girl. Who seems to have been a model for the now defunct biggestletdown.comβ¦
But i have no idea when the eschatron 9000 pictures were made or for that matter the original photos that were used to make it
this is far more than βrandom person in 2005ish creates surreal visual narrativeβ - letβs go deeper down the rabbit hole, shall we?
toΒ Immanentize the EschatonΒ means to bring about utopian conditions and create heaven on Earth
the phrase is first cited in the Discordian religious text, Principia Discordia (1963), for whom Discord (aka Eris) is goddess:
the first line ofΒ Robert Anton WilsonΒ andΒ Robert Sheaβs 1975Β The Illuminatus! trilogy: βIt was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.β
in Frederik Pohlβs The Eschaton Sequence (1997 - 1999), the human race is caught up in a galactic war between two alien races attempting to immanentize the eschaton
inΒ Ken Macleod'sΒ The Stone Canal (1997), one of the chapters is βAnother crack at Immanentising the Eschatonβ
Crystal Thierryβs (aka the modern Discordia / Eris) narrative lives in esteemed company
hereβs what the warning in the image says btw because i wanted to read it but it was too blurry so i had to spend several minutes hunting for a version with better resolution, so Iβm posting it here so nobody else has to make that same journey
βDO NOT OPERATE THE ESCHATRON 9000 UNLESS YOUβRE REALLY, REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT DESTROYING THE WORLDβ
also just noticed the labels on the dials on the left side of the deviceβs control panel:
βMAYHEMβ and βDESTRUCTIONβ are both turned all the way up
As they should be. Canβt make paradise without scrambling a few universes.
Official ominous sign(s)
You definitely donβt get content like this on other webbed sites and apps
