From wordman...

..There are forces at loose in the world that both colour and influence it… a strata of society, enabled, entitled, occulted, that are slaves to those forces without knowing – strata that control the governments, make the laws, guide and determine pop culture, steer the societal waters, factor controlling ideologies; men who sold the world…

It seems King has always been charged with playing a large part in the steering of pop culture consciousness – with many peculiar touchstones along the way. Works like IT and The Shining don’t just dabble in pedophilic undercurrents, they openly embrace them. (And King reviled Kubrick’s take on The Shining because Kubrick was determined to underscore this very point**….something King had probably hoped to keep in the subliminal background where it could work its magick.) IT takes it all even a step farther and uses children as psychic food for off-world forces. Adrenochrome in the decades before anyone knew what it was. Parallels between The Stand and what is taking place in the world today don’t even need mentioning.

** Kubrick once famously halted production on The Shining for more than a day until that EXACT copy of PLAYGIRL could be located for Nicholson to be reading. See the header for the cover and the 2nd story down top left…Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, was in a Kubrick film for a reason. King hated, HATED, the Kubrick version of his tale for just such details as this.

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