you follow the tissue trail in scooby doo spooky swamp

obv this trick cant be the final word on everything (evil is real, 'ghosts' are real) but for kids id like to keep it as clean & usable a tool as possible, and forcing mystic demons into the cartoon nullifies that (on purpose?) when facing a situation that seems esoteric & incomprehensible, you can apply the scooby doo lens to view the evil mechanistically - its not supernatural, its moral, political & economic (not ghosts, machines).

im cribbing some of this from a long-deleted occult research blogspot but details like the gang's trippy texas-chainsaw van, the 'MYSTERY MACHINE' gives it away: 'mysteries'='machines' made up of elements that can be taken apart & broken down to understand thru analysis. True to its beatnik/countercultural roots, every classic episode of the show runs thru steps of this follow-the-money demystification process. powerful exploiters & molesters use lurid, sensationalist grand guignol kitsch like mantis abductions or p1zzagate to scare us away from uncovering the next denny hastert (or ICE abuse) redirecting outrage from the blandly affluent to spectral oddballs, weirdos, artists & queers - it's a bank president in a monster mask.

old man jenkins doesnt need to believe in witch doctors any more than peter thiel needs to believe in bloodmoons or #q-sigils, they just need you to believe. Scooby doo reverses this duped q/conspiracist-as-slur mindset: big business isnt a front for creepy satanic rituals, creepy ritual activity is a front for the mundane evils of business. 'conspiracy theory' gets a bad rap nowadays (anybody notice pluto tv's conspiracy channel is now 'the paranormal channel'?) but to me its a critical/analytical process for learning things outside established systems & narratives, a way to challenge & ultimately dismantle psychological warfare often waged by those who actually get called 'conspiracy theorists' exploiting metaphysical truths beyond our understanding to 'mask' their petty cons, abuses, exploitations & financial crimes with enigmatic spectacles of cultural fear & superstition (or superstition's cousin, ideology) obv in most fiction (& real life!) i welcome the intrusion of the supernatural/ultraterrestrial, but scooby doo isnt some potteresque fantasy about teens fighting magical monsters, its a blueprint for yung conspiracy theorists on how to approach the terrifying (but real) deceivers of our world. actually thats wrong, it outgrew me - this may be the dorkiest opinion ive ever held on here but even w/ some cool fulci gags & lewton mood this movie's introduction of actual ghosts n goblins into the 'dooniverse fucks it up beyond redemption. I remember cartoon network hyping the 10/31/98 tv premiere of this but i guess back then i figured id outgrown scooby doo & watching it now i think maybe i was right.

The scoobert gang spend 1998 in new orleans and not once do they listen to silkk the shocker feat.

You follow the tissue trail in scooby doo spooky swamp