>>2558110Now you, Tom, have no idea what the fuck just happened, nor does anyone you talk to. Without explanation, you attribute it to some bizzare, distant race of men, who live ferrally in the woods. Gremlins, or goblins.
With this in mind for how those legends vould start, it becomes quite clear how the storys of gnomes, pixies, giants and dragons came about. What would the primitive man think of seeing deer walk on their hind legs, ball lightning, a field of methane gas, or oil ignited by lightning? What would he think, seeing the northern lights, hearing the blood curdling scream of a mountain lion, or encountering a feral man standing 7 feet tall? He has no explanation, nor will he ever, no matter how much he digs and questions. Content with this, he invents a superstition, and it comforts him that he cannot know everything, but at least there is a defined concept of what he has experienced.
Today, we have explanations for these things. We understand the northern lights, deer wasting disease, the formation of fulgurites, ect... Despite all our knoledge however, there are still an infinite amount of things we dont understand on our world alone. We dont fully understand ball lightning, and I believe we only recently figured out those desert rocks that move on their own.
So you, a Tom of the modern age, when thrust into the unknown, will find yourself faced with the unknowable, the unexplainable, and the terrifying. You are, in such circumstances, presented with a choice: admit you will never know, and submit to fantastical, enjoyable thinking, that will not have any effect on your way of life, or choose to reject your nature, and remain ignorant.
Of course, the people who make posts like
>>2557620 will never experiance the bizzare and unknowable, because that would require leaving the city, and curing their hyper-gay-turbo-autism.
