I particularly like the Fabs meeting Bigfoot. 😎
BTW, the supposed 8mm home movie that the photo-shopped pic of the creature with the Abbey Road Beatles derives from has been pretty definitely proven to be the work of John Chambers, the legendary Hollywood makeup guy who did Mr. Spock's ears on the first iteration of Star Trek and the costumes in the original Planet of the Apes movies.
As hoaxes go, it was a pretty good one, though. 😎😎
10 comments:
1/the fabs/bigfoot is indeed funny
2/From a psychoanalytic perspective, the persistent North American folklore of Bigfoot can be interpreted as a profound manifestation of "the return of the repressed," wherein the collective guilt of settler-colonial society surfaces in a displaced and mythologized form. This guilt, stemming from the violent displacement and near-eradication of Indigenous peoples and their cultures, is too traumatic for the dominant cultural consciousness to assimilate directly. Instead, according to Freudian theory, such unacceptable feelings and historical truths are pushed into the collective unconscious. They do not vanish, however, and seek expression through symbolic substitutes. Bigfoot—a large, powerful, human-like creature that is perceived as a native of the deepest, most untamed forests—becomes the perfect screen image. It embodies the "wilderness" that was systematically conquered and the original inhabitants who were rendered spectral, allowing the settler imagination to project its unease onto a cryptic, biological entity rather than confronting the historical human reality.
Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious further elucidates how Bigfoot functions as an archetype born from this repressed historical trauma. The creature is not merely an individual fantasy but a recurring symbolic figure emerging from the shared psychic substrate of a culture built on displacement. It represents the perpetual "other" who haunts the margins of settlement, a shadow archetype made flesh that refuses to be extinguished or cataloged. Every report of a fleeting glimpse or a mysterious footprint reinforces the narrative of an enduring presence that precedes and survives colonial occupation, mirroring the unresolved legacy of Indigenous peoples. Thus, the endless pursuit to capture or prove Bigfoot’s existence becomes a compulsive repetition, a cultural acting-out of the original sin of dispossession. The creature’s elusiveness ensures the search never concludes, just as the guilt is never resolved, forever returning from the repressed depths of the forest and the national psyche to remind settlers of the primordial claim they superseded.
I personally think the Abominable Snowman/Yeti is a possible. Bigfoot? Not so much. 😎
All great ones!!!
Captain Al
Thanks Chat GPT no credit given....
"Cranberry sauce."
I think what gets me most is still how damn cool the Fabs look in this image to this day. (Geese; I'm looking at you!)
With Apologies... "I Buried Saul". 😉
The bigfoot one is good, but woulda been better had they photoshopped the lads at the same scale and in line with bigfoot (in front or rear).
C in California
For a further discussion of the Bigfoot/Sasquatch archetype in a multicultural and crossborder perspective, mentioning the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission led by Justice Murray Sinclair, one can see an exploration of the issues, in which I serve as interrogator and DeepSeek as respondent/summarizer of scholarly work on relevant topics:
https://chat.deepseek.com/share/tynwytfo9qo1m0qfhp
A similar process - led by a meatbased information-processing conversational system already conversant with the issues, in collaboration with a nonmeatbased information-processing conversational system with access to a wide range of scholarly discussion, is what produced my earlier remark, as has been pointed out by a commenter.
In regards to #2 above - or it could just be a hairy guy walking through the forest
Post a Comment