Thursday, November 7, 2013

The Horror of American Horror Story's Third Season

Something is messed up about American Horror Story's Third Season. Its not the primitivism, sexism, incest, or even the disrespectful use of grotesque images of slavery simply to entertain its audience that I'm talking about.

What's messed up is the way American Horror story rewrites the history of marvelous real, aka magical,  traditions in America. The show claims that magic started in Africa and was given to the whites during the incidents in Salem when Tituba a slave from Barbados taught the children of Salem magic. So they didn't just neglect, they erased the influence of American Indian traditions, Latin American traditions, European traditions, and  Asian traditions of the marvelous real.

That's like erasing the fact that the fire magic in Dark Souls comes from the Great Swamp or saying Luke Sky Walker discovered the force on his own without having a legacy of Jedi behind his training.

On one hand, The magical lore and the conflict signifies white fears of their loss of power in America and the realization that their power had always been limited.

On the other hand, It’s also a recognition  of the role that blacks played in the construction of this nation.

Watch the show with this in mind and you will see what I mean.

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