You are probably not answering questions anymore but this has been floating around in my head for a while now: is there one root cause for the dysfunction we see in Moralton? Specifically, the women in Moralton seem the worst off - see the episodes "Alone", "Numb", and "Help".
Of course we can read MO as a scathing attack on blind faith but that doesn't really explain why exactly these women are so broken. All of the women in the episodes I mentioned, Bloberta, Ms. Sculptham, Nurse Bendy, and even Mrs. Hymentact all seem to be missing something from their lives so that they compensate in different ways (Bloberta's compulsion to "help", Nurse Bendy's retreat from reality and life in a childlike fantasy, Hymentact's need for power over her "children", etc.etc.). What is it about Moralton's society that creates these fundamentally broken people? Are we all broken and Moralton is just what happens when we cease to rely on each other and start to rely on some unseen force exclusively? Or is it much simpler and Statesota/Middle America is just fucking crazy?
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You are probably not answering questions anymore but this has been floating around in my head for a while now: is there one root cause for the dysfunction we see in Moralton? Specifically, the women in Moralton seem the worst off - see the episodes "Alone", "Numb", and "Help".
Of course we can read MO as a scathing attack on blind faith but that doesn't really explain why exactly these women are so broken. All of the women in the episodes I mentioned, Bloberta, Ms. Sculptham, Nurse Bendy, and even Mrs. Hymentact all seem to be missing something from their lives so that they compensate in different ways (Bloberta's compulsion to "help", Nurse Bendy's retreat from reality and life in a childlike fantasy, Hymentact's need for power over her "children", etc.etc.). What is it about Moralton's society that creates these fundamentally broken people? Are we all broken and Moralton is just what happens when we cease to rely on each other and start to rely on some unseen force exclusively? Or is it much simpler and Statesota/Middle America is just fucking crazy?
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