on the topic of things like liminal spaces and the backrooms movie by kane parsons, in terms of a dialectical materialist perspective it almost feels as if liminal spaces were going to be something that would be brought up anyway specifically because of the desire to look back upon nostalgia in the midst of a crumbling empire and the overall architecture of suburban areas literally separating people physically. because of the sense of alienation capitalism creates and the separated nature of suburbs such that you may spend your whole life never knowing your neighbors, we tend to try to spend our time looking inwards (again, something that is also intertwined with the fact that modern capitalism drives the blame of alienation inwards as something to do with laziness or lack of productivity, and so we end up hyperindividualist and lonely, and having lots of time to ourselves, looking back on our memories) and as we try and remember memories over and over again, it changes, which is something the backrooms reflects (copying geometry, creating distorted versions of people known as “still-lives”) and the fact that the liminal nature of things like the backrooms is specifically due to spaces being entirely devoid of people, which also loops back to the idea of loneliness and alienation as well as the idea of nostalgia and introspection simultaneously, it all shows just how connected these modern ideas of liminal spaces and backrooms internet mythology are to the material effects of capitalism especially in the united states

what do y’all think?