hey real quick can anybody help me find this image that Iâve seen before here on tumblr. it looks like this
the button doesnât necessarily say âElucidate the Raptureâ but it does say something thatâs 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 âhey i think i saw a weird image onceâ and put a bad stick figure drawing of it and someone will be like âoh yeah thatâs the first installment of a 12-part post-ironic apocalypse fever dream photoshop seriesâ and just hand you a dozen of the most unhinged images youâve ever seen in your life, that still have a better three act structure than most modern cinema
I dont think thats the whole photosetâŚ. 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.comâŚ
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 ârandom person in 2005ish creates surreal visual narrativeâ - letâs go deeper down the rabbit hole, shall we?
to Immanentize the Eschaton 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 of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Sheaâs 1975 The Illuminatus! trilogy: âIt was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.â
in Frederik Pohlâs The Eschaton Sequence (1997 - 1999), the human race is caught up in a galactic war between two alien races attempting to immanentize the eschaton
in Ken Macleod's The Stone Canal (1997), one of the chapters is âAnother crack at Immanentising the Eschatonâ
Crystal Thierryâs (aka the modern Discordia / Eris) narrative lives in esteemed company
hereâs 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 Iâm posting it here so nobody else has to make that same journey
âDO NOT OPERATE THE ESCHATRON 9000 UNLESS YOUâRE REALLY, REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT DESTROYING THE WORLDâ
also just noticed the labels on the dials on the left side of the deviceâs control panel:
âMAYHEMâ and âDESTRUCTIONâ are both turned all the way up
