Scary Clowns: why are they everywhere?

Another day, another meme, another attempt to explain how something spreads based on it’s essential characteristics. Take this piece from Vulture for example: nice, clear, sensible Freud-enriched cultural-psychological speculation. “There is an aspect of horror that Freud initially called the uncanny. That’s where something is familiar enough to be recognizable but weird enough to give you […]

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