It Was the Middle of the Night - Pantheon Ep. 3

02/05/20 • 9 min

The Prophet is visited in the middle of the night, long ago.
This visitor is quite odd, quite harsh, and in fact has already graced us in the first episode of the podcast. The visitor comes to people at their lowest, seeking to grant them something that might be appealing under those conditions: bloodlust. But this bloodlust it gives never ends, even when there is not another drop of blood left to be shed. How do you turn away this beast at your lowest point? What things can give you hope? There are many things. Here is one.
There's a lot of contemporary talk among the young of the "blackpill," the embrace of absolute, bloody nihilism in the face of the colossal problems of the present. This viewpoint, is, of course, spread by the first great antagonist foundational ideology. Victims of it are hopeless. Most will simply wallow in hopelessness and apathy, but a few will turn to bloodshed. As time passes and The One Who Isn't is left unopposed, the number of these people will grow larger and larger, until they perhaps take over the bulk of society. Best to avoid that.
The Pantheon is written and produced by Joshua White. Music by Erokia, distorted to fit.
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The One Who Wouldn't Be - Pantheon Ep. 2

A love-letter to those who would identify themselves as consumers.
We are many things, and hunger is one of them, but should not be the primary thing we identify with. Unfortunately, contemporary culture is obsessed with the idea of consumption; those who create and consume more are seen as inherently better than those who create and consume less. When you try and view this ideology from the outside it's quite odd, for even though luxuries and the like are good for our lives and experiences, binding our entire lives to them, to their creation, consumption, and propagation is making us less and less happy. If the idea of eternal creation/consumption is allowed to continue to rule over us, we will all die, in a very horrific fashion. We notice it. We understand it, but do nothing about it, because we are obsessed with smaller issues, smaller gods. Of course, I'll elaborate more on this later.
Written and produced by Joshua White. Background music from Erokia, distorted to fit.
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Promise: Standalone Story

Just another random horror story. It probably won't tie into anything, but I quite like it. There's no specific moral, either. Just have fun. We forget that we need that every once in a while in this new gilded age.
The Pantheon is written and produced by Joshua White.
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