I came up with a few other theories, although they all have in common that the Things are trying to make us see things we do not want to see.
The Things are the bottomless Pit of Suffering that is this world. Most people frantically try to not see this, but most of those who truly comprehend go mad, either wearing themselves out with useless efforts or screaming at everyone to see the suffering. A very few are able to find peace in working ceaselessly for a better world, while knowing that their greatest efforts are but a drop of water in the ocean.
The Things are agents of those outside the Matrix who are trying to wake us all up from our illusory lives. Unlike the “nice” version depicted in “The Matrix”, most people who they awaken go mad. The few who can deal with it know that the most urgent task of all is to wake everyone else up. Birds are agitated around the Things because birds are not real. They are agents of the Matrix keeping the population under surveillance, and hostile to any effort to wake us up.
The Last Judgement has already happened, and we are in Hell, a condition so intolerable that we have shut ourselves off from it in our imagination. Each one of us is the sole occupant of our imaginary world. Everyone’s world is different, and different from the original, pre-Judgement world. The Things are intimations of our true condition, that we have not been able to entirely shut out. Birds are strange. Look at the bird-like figures that appear in Hieronymus Bosch’s visions.
I was thinking about cats, because they fit 2 out of 3 criteria: some people can’t stop sharing cat videos on social networks, and of course birds are afraid of cats. But cats usually don’t kill people, only give them toxoplasmosis.
A possible explanation is that our world happens in the future long after the depicted Bird Box events; the toxoplasmosis originally drove people to suicide, but now we have adapted to it.
A piece of advice for Price would be, notice that if you’re depressed for a reason, that same reason probably applies to a lot of people, and so you can coordinate with them to make progress.
I came up with a few other theories, although they all have in common that the Things are trying to make us see things we do not want to see.
The Things are the bottomless Pit of Suffering that is this world. Most people frantically try to not see this, but most of those who truly comprehend go mad, either wearing themselves out with useless efforts or screaming at everyone to see the suffering. A very few are able to find peace in working ceaselessly for a better world, while knowing that their greatest efforts are but a drop of water in the ocean.
The Things are agents of those outside the Matrix who are trying to wake us all up from our illusory lives. Unlike the “nice” version depicted in “The Matrix”, most people who they awaken go mad. The few who can deal with it know that the most urgent task of all is to wake everyone else up. Birds are agitated around the Things because birds are not real. They are agents of the Matrix keeping the population under surveillance, and hostile to any effort to wake us up.
The Last Judgement has already happened, and we are in Hell, a condition so intolerable that we have shut ourselves off from it in our imagination. Each one of us is the sole occupant of our imaginary world. Everyone’s world is different, and different from the original, pre-Judgement world. The Things are intimations of our true condition, that we have not been able to entirely shut out. Birds are strange. Look at the bird-like figures that appear in Hieronymus Bosch’s visions.
I was thinking about cats, because they fit 2 out of 3 criteria: some people can’t stop sharing cat videos on social networks, and of course birds are afraid of cats. But cats usually don’t kill people, only give them toxoplasmosis.
A possible explanation is that our world happens in the future long after the depicted Bird Box events; the toxoplasmosis originally drove people to suicide, but now we have adapted to it.
Ha!
Hm. Yeah.
A piece of advice for Price would be, notice that if you’re depressed for a reason, that same reason probably applies to a lot of people, and so you can coordinate with them to make progress.