2020 has been the year that we’ve truly experienced first-hand the birth and growth of a civilization-ending evil. It has spread like an invisible wave, infecting millions, bringing them into its fold, who then become vectors of this evil. The strangest and most tragic part about it, is that there is no purpose or goal, or real intelligence behind it. It emerged as a powerful negative force, and the vast majority of people have not had the strength of character to resist it. It is nihilism, chaos, and it lives and grows within our minds, and we in turn spread it to others. A psychological plague, more or less. And one that has compelled us to inflict so much suffering on millions, needlessly so. And because so many have been held utterly in thrall to this psychological contagion, those millions who have needlessly suffered and died are forgotten about, never cared for. What’s the fatality rate for this disease of the mind?
With all of this on my mind, I’ve interpreted this scene from episode 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return far differently than I had when I first watched it.
Whereas before I only heard, “gotta light?”, now all I hear is, “God of Light?” David Lynch gives us a front-row seat to the birth of evil, a powerful negative force that is searching for the “God of Light”.
