Hookland 6/3/18 23:30:02

@folk_horror @MsJayneH It was a deep cultural force. Modern erosion, current psychic static makes us think in shallow terms, but then, then the ghost soil went long way down.

Hookland 6/3/18 23:37:09

@ApeInWinter @folk_horror @MsJayneH Indeed, but the weird was a much larger part of our psychic static then, UFOs to witchcraft. Tim slips to David Attenborough professing a belief in Yeti. 18 minutes of unsneering BBC news coverage on a poltergeist wouldn’t happen today.

Hookland 6/3/18 23:41:08

@ApeInWinter @folk_horror @MsJayneH Not only is there a good creative infrastructure, not just in adult TV drama, but radio drama, children’s television, there is bigger cultural milieu that makes examining ‘the weird’ something not reduced to genre.