I regard the SCP Foundation folk tales as a series of myths made by people who see The Military Industrial Complex and try to imagine a reason why something like that might need to exist.

The only sane response is to imagine that there are literal supernatural monsters. Then such gross destructive power might "make sense"

But, like any folk tale it can serve many purposes. Depending on how you tell it.

@futurebird oh we love this take

@ireneista

Nature is an SCP. How will you contain it?

I regard the SCP Foundation folk tales as a series of myths made by people who see The Military Industrial Complex and try to imagine a reason why something like that might need to exist.

The only sane response is to imagine that there are literal supernatural monsters. Then such gross destructive power might "make sense"

But, like any folk tale it can serve many purposes. Depending on how you tell it.

I regard the SCP Foundation folk tales as a series of myths made by people who see The Military Industrial Complex and try to imagine a reason why something like that might need to exist.

The only sane response is to imagine that there are literal supernatural monsters. Then such gross destructive power might "make sense"

But, like any folk tale it can serve many purposes. Depending on how you tell it.

@futurebird Good old rough men fallacy: there are scary things out there so we have to have the power to [whatever], you sheep just can't understand. See all anti-terrorism legislation ever.

@futurebird @ireneista Banishment is off-key and likely to backfire anyhow. Dancing reveals core intentions and opens portals. We’re both guest & host alike, and there’s only this one house. Natural law is the only law, but be wary of folks attempting to tell you what’s natural.

@RogerBW

My head cannon is everything would be fine if they simply stopped. LOL.

@RogerBW

My head cannon is everything would be fine if they simply stopped. LOL.

@futurebird @RogerBW Maybe there's a "supernatural" ecosystem that was balanced until the Foundation came along.

@futurebird @ireneista I’m not certain whether this response adequately expands upon yr wise words about the military industrial complex as something that might as well be supernatural, and about nature as a hyperobject that secures, protects and contains as it will, whether this suits our plans or not, but a near-rhyme/adjacent tone meditation seemed best.

@futurebird @ireneista and this SCP speculative fiction endeavor seems quite wild — thanks for the tip top tip

A large portion of SCP tales focus on the very Tactical Squads of Tactical Men who have lots of gear and cool code names and patches and do "operations" and "extractions" to get the monsters.

The SCP Foundation is deeply secretive and extrajudicial. It's like a mutant CIA or FBI "off books" operation. But when you study real operations like that they are clown shows. They hardly ever work even within their own deeply distorted ethical framework.

@ira @ireneista

It's a wonderful project. Parts of it just have a bad case of Secret Police Military Fantasy and it annoys me.

@futurebird @ira and of course the Ethics Board parts of it are just depressingly real

Listen buddy, I do not need you or your "MTF* Unit" to "preserve my precious bodily fluids"

I prefer the chaos beast. "Baseline Reality" can sit and spin.

*unfortunately, this stands for "Mobile Task Force."

@futurebird ah, a reference to one of my favorite movies

A large portion of SCP tales focus on the very Tactical Squads of Tactical Men who have lots of gear and cool code names and patches and do "operations" and "extractions" to get the monsters.

The SCP Foundation is deeply secretive and extrajudicial. It's like a mutant CIA or FBI "off books" operation. But when you study real operations like that they are clown shows. They hardly ever work even within their own deeply distorted ethical framework.

@futurebird This was a really cool analysis of something I'm tangentially familiar with. While I'm being lazy, what are the 'off the books' agencies you're referring to?

Or have I misunderstood, and you mean the times publically known agencies conducted operations that lost touch with reality (or never had any to begin with), like say Project MKULTRA or the Bay of Pigs or something like that?

Listen buddy, I do not need you or your "MTF* Unit" to "preserve my precious bodily fluids"

I prefer the chaos beast. "Baseline Reality" can sit and spin.

*unfortunately, this stands for "Mobile Task Force."