Name: 夜谷如何面對未知？| 思想頻道｜PBS數字工作室 (How Does Night Vale Confront Us With the Unknown? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios)
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shows us how uncomfortable we are with the unknown.

"Night Vale" is a small desert community where the sun is hot,

the moon is bright, and strange lights pass overhead

It's also a podcast-- a very popular podcast--

the most popular podcast in America, actually.

It's written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

and voiced by Cecil Baldwin, who shares his first name

with the main character, the host of Night Vale's

However, the daily news happenings of "Night Vale"

aren't exactly quotidian-- well, I mean for Night Vale they are,

like the taco place is encased in amber and all of the what

and what byproducts have turned into snakes.

is an unseen horrible thrashing beast and the hooded figures

that you see around town are headquartered

at the dog park, which you shouldn't go to or think about.

And Cecil-- oh, Cecil-- reports all of these shenanigans

The creators of Night Vale have made this mysterious, engaging,

and funny podcast using most notably, though not solely,

the characteristics of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.

who lived in the Northeast in the early 20th century

and he wrote stories-- many stories-- about how

the universe, it's machinations, and far flung inhabitants

are so dreadfully horrifyingly and infinitely

He created the great Cthulu, wrote about impossibly shaped

ancient underground cities, and characters who are not

And while Night Vale hasn't borrowed so much directly

borrowed much of Lovecraft's spirit-- specifically,

in service of boot quaking, sanity losing, forever

In fact, Lovecraft saw his main contribution

that-- capturing the ways in which a real person might

actually react if they are confronted with something

literally impossible, given their experience

Lovecraft as a writer of gaps-- a gap specifically

between what we understand to be possible

in the story, expressed by the gap between the existence

to accurately and appropriately describe that thing.

Lovecraft and much of Night Vale is constructed

around the situations it was not meant to apprehend.

is replaced with a sense of almost drab mundanity.

Night Vale undoes Lovecraft's central innovation

This, in turn, might be Night Vale's greatest innovation.

the world was a much larger, more mysterious,

Today I [BLEEP] Love Science, Brain Pickings, Wikipedia,

Are ubiquitous black helicopters and glow

clouds-- which, by the way, all hail the glow cloud--

and the constant dissipation of incumbent mayor Pamela Winchell

really that much weirder than a government organization that

can punch so fast it boils water, and Kanye West?

It's not that we've become numb to the peculiarities

of the world, but rather like Cecil and the citizens of Night

Vale, we've come to expect and kind of just deal with them.

But the reverse is also true and is a sentiment perfectly

captured in a Susan Sontag quote that Brain Pickings actually

reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs

is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.

In short, seeing is not metaphorically believing,

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