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The occult technology of the rollercoaster
The rollercoaster makes most sense as a machine designed to automate magickal ritual for the mass market. Like a cathedral or a stone circle, the rollercoaster is an occult technology.
The distinctly regional, mid-tier Plopsaland De Panne joined the ranks of Universal Orlando with its Velocicoaster, Cedar Point with Steel Vengeance and Busch Gardens with Iron Gwazi as the site of a genuinely world-class rollercoaster that every thoosie with a YouTube channel was required to have an opinion on. Finally you crest two rapid hills in succession, momentum leaving you weightlessly floating above your seat (a sensation thoosies call ‘airtime’ describing those moments when the force of gravity exerted on the body by a ride’s movement is neutralised or reversed) and then the journey is over. A you wait to dispatch on The Ride To Happiness, a big face not dissimilar to the one that prefigures the Wicker man gazes down at the departing trains - but this deity says nothing of terror or danger or horror - instead she smiles beatifically and invites you to ‘live today, love tomorrow, unite forever!’.
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