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“I’m coming for it all.”

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"This is a man with a lot of past, but little present. And almost no future."

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What happens in the Dolorian church in Martinaise is a profound bit of worldbuilding. At first Elysium seems like a normal, secular world, and if anything it's surprising how absent religion is from it. Liberalism has become the religion. The only real reminder that Moralism was once a fully functioning world religion is the abandoned and broken church west of the lock.

But learning about the pale point, the history of the churches, it makes sense now. The pale is directly interacting with human thought and society because they are both manifestations of information in the universe, in an evolving dialectic. Dolores Dei pulled information from the future and literally expanded the world by inspiring others with her dream. She was, by the standards of our world, a prophet. The churches, built around nascent points of pale particles, are a social attempt to control the pale through the collective act of ritual dreaming. By dreaming the divine, humanity pushes back the death of the world, for a moment.

By the time the game takes place, that side of Moralism is long dead. The churches have been abandoned and their function forgotten. Moralism has degenerated into liberalism. The Revolution was a moment of mass dreaming, of the future manifesting itself. It was the best hope to push back the Pale, but the MoralIntern crushed it, and restored global stagnancy. Growing entropy is accelerating the consumption of the world by the Pale, and no-one knows what to do because there is no future, only past.

Harry though, depending on how you play him, has the potential to start the reversal of this process, if just in Martinaise. The man who has effectively dedicated himself to a kind of monastic worship of the Pale (unknowingly) is the first one to start the process. (Never give anyone too much credit, even Harry.) But if Harry helps the homeless ravers start a club in the Church, he is effectively helping to start a new ritual community with the same properties as the old Moralist Church, right under the pale point.

If you get Noid to warm up to you, you learn he's a kind of organic existential philosopher. He even discourses with Tiago. He and the others don't just party as a hedonistic act, they maintain partying as a kind of ritual act of life affirmation and contemplation, an attempt to transcend themselves and realize something new and powerful. In short, they are reaching into the future to create something new. It's ridiculous 90s Euro club music, but the way they do it it's as ritually powerful as any church service.

This ties into the more general theme of Disco Elysium, that the human power to dream of a new future and then collectively act to bring it about is a powerful act of creation that pushes back the boundaries of the universe, and is necessary for our species to even survive. To crush the revolution, to crush democracy, is to crush the future. Elysium has killed God, but they haven't gotten to the next stage of becoming gods.

Dolorian humanism ironically does not end up elevating human beings. Only the communards had a chance at elevating humanity to a level of creative consciousness that would allow them to tame the Pale the same way they used to with religion. And the revolutionaries, even though the Moralists never recognized them as such, were likely pulling from the future as much as Dolores Dei. Kras Mazov will never be recognized as an Innocent, but in terms of prophesying and inspiring people with a dream which could push back the Pale, he effectively was.

Now with the revolution at a low point, the world is in a kind of existentialist limbo, lacking the conviction of faith in either the divine or the future. The old is dead, but the new cannot be born. What happens in Martinaise is the beginning of the return of that faith.

while talking to @code31-onthedancefloor and then @excalibutt I think I managed to put my finger on what the game is trying to say by making Harry project himself onto Mazov just as he compares Dora to Dolores Dei (regardless of ideology! which means it’s clearly very personal)

why the Final Dream takes place in the sea fort, right before meeting Dros

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Harry Du Bois being a fucking kinnie of Karl Marx Kras Mazov is so fucking funny

Obsessed with the possibilities of the different holidays in the Disco Elysium universe. Like, for sure they have a bullshit commercialized holiday for when the dolorians broke through into Insulinde. Lots of depictions of the great skua and Dolores Dei

And of course a memorial type thing for the failed revolution but it sucks because the houses east of the Esperance crowd their windows with blue Forget Me Nots (ugh) and so others start adopting the maybells just as a fuck you and as a symbol like 'prepare for war, we are not content'.

Oh oH YES and another holiday for when Dolores Dei was named an innocence. Since her lungs started glowing that day. It was a symbol for her love of humanity. Anyways this would absolutely be a day people use as an excuse for doing gooey lovey things for each other

I don't know, it's really fun to think about. I don't remember holidays mentioned in the game but if anyone knows anything (from other sources) please please please let me know.

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me too harry. me too