Good Pinterest album I found for architecture reference
https://www.pinterest.com/carolinelordy/60s-70s-architecture/
https://www.pinterest.com/carolinelordy/60s-70s-architecture/
"What Madness Is This?" Volume I: The Union Forever
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One thing I’ve always wondered (and probably mentioned waaaay back near the beginning of the thread) is how long until the beliefs and doctrine of the RU and AFC warped scientific community begins to clash with actual science, particularly in medicine and biosciences. It would be kind of hilarious if the RU’s bizarre ideas on bloodlines and breeding resulted in many of their castes (particular the white ones) becoming plagued with genetic disorders, essentially ruining their own Precious Fluids.
I’m pretty sure I’ve also floated this about before, but what if Europa got the atomic bomb first? Maybe the can be led by an Irish Oppenheimer (O’Phenheimer, if you will?), forcing Steele or whoever is president at the time to denounce it as satanic in the months/weeks/whatever before they can test their own bomb powered by “pure American fundamentalist christian energy!”?
I’m pretty sure I’ve also floated this about before, but what if Europa got the atomic bomb first? Maybe the can be led by an Irish Oppenheimer (O’Phenheimer, if you will?), forcing Steele or whoever is president at the time to denounce it as satanic in the months/weeks/whatever before they can test their own bomb powered by “pure American fundamentalist christian energy!”?
I think there will just be "revelations" or more likely "lost writings of the Prophet" that justify new knowledge. Imagine Billy Graham announcing that Jehovah and the angel Columbia had blessed the "Pinnacle achievements in the Christian Sciences, as Scripture has foretold..." on the matters of biological evolution/modern physics/planetary history.
As for the atom bomb, no way! I still want it to be the brainchild of the Church Council on Christian Magicks. Radioactivity scours away a sinful world, so it's obviously a holy substance. Forget silver, in Fascist fiction monsters can only be killed with depleted uranium bullets!
Finally caught up to this TL, and it’s just as mad as it was the last time I read it. The Great World War, the Balkanization of Germania, the spread of Illuminism, the rise of Steele, and the coming of Nixon and Oswald. All glorious additions to the madness of the world of WMIT?. All Hail!
I was shocked at the speed of your read-through. Everybody, this guy read this whole thread in like two days. Let's give a big All Hail to Imperial Theorist for his mad reading skills.
So, I posted a long while back I got my father's 1970s notebooks from his college years, including ones on Eschatology and Satanology. I was reading the Esch. one and it had a list of names for the Antichrist he had jotted down. The following are snippets I typed out:
The Prince That Shall Come
The Profane and Wicked Prince
The Violent Man
The King that Shall Exhalt and Magnify Himself
The Son of Perdition
The Beast
The One Who Comes in his Own Name
"He will be a man, rather than a system, with a striking physical appearance. he will be a genius in all things leadership related. He will be a blasphemer and an egomaniac."
There was much more than that he wrote, but that's the idea. The False Prophet:
"The FP will:
Show great signs and wonders
Will deceive the very elect, if possible
Will cause earthlings to worship the Antichrist
Will make fire come down from heaven
Will cause an image of the Antichrist to be built
Will animate the image and enable it to speak.
Will make worship of the image mandatory.
Will cause earthlings to receive the Mark of the Beast.
The Great Whore of Babylon will help the Antichrist to power. But she will be destroyed by him halfway through the Tribulation.
The Revived Roman Empire will force earth to submit to the Antichrist."
What if there is some sort of whacked out cult-within-a-cult in the AFC that knows Oswald doesn't even believe, thinks Wyetta Arkham-Steele is the Great Whore, Billy Graham is the False Prophet making fire rain down from Heaven, and the Revived Rome is NUSA. It's literally perfect. And don't forget, Atheling means Prince. So is Oswald the Profane and Wicked Atheling? Something Oswald this way comes?
But the cult-within-a-cult is ALSO racist, because they think Oswald is Irish and therefore prime Antichrist material.
The next update will actually be something odd. It's an in-universe pulp fiction of a Boston detective around the late 20s-early 30s. So it's supposed to be something people in the Union would read. It allows me to do some... interesting things.
Was expecting Steele's wider purge of the business community to be shown but that sounds fun as well.
There was something like that in Bioshock Infinite. The KKK expy has a secret room where they use phrenology to prove that Comstock is Native American (he is, but they have no way of proving that with just an old-timey picture)What if there is some sort of whacked out cult-within-a-cult in the AFC that knows Oswald doesn't even believe, thinks Wyetta Arkham-Steele is the Great Whore, Billy Graham is the False Prophet making fire rain down from Heaven, and the Revived Rome is NUSA. It's literally perfect. And don't forget, Atheling means Prince. So is Oswald the Profane and Wicked Atheling? Something Oswald this way comes?
That explains why I got all those likes, I was mildly concerned for a moment.
so Korea going to become a hermit kingdom but this time it the last bastion of sanity
...maybe. Or in my opinion a Anarcho-Communist commune country created from Taoist,Christian, Buddhist inspiration.
I've got a true Madness idea, Taoist Anarcho-Communists vs Zen Buddhist Authoritarian Socialists.
Or maybe it will become an horrible mix between Imperial Japan and North Korea.
I mean this is the WMIT universe after all
Still better than the RU or the Dutch
well yah but even in This world there have to be a few places of sanity just like in our world we have a few places of insanity like North Korea