We live on Retard Planet now. 200 years ago this would have just been a sign that the land is free for the taking by some foreign power. Seriously, what's the damn point of the place now?
"nooooo you can't touch the sacred lines on the map the world is always going to look like this forever as divinely decreed by Francis Fukuyama!"
I don't think so.
Forbidden knowledge used to be shit like "how to summon demons", now it's "men and women are different" or "lots of rich people are jews", modern scholarship sucks.
The worst consequence of the loss of attention span (and the attendant social panopticon) is the near extinction of ceremony, of the sense of occasion.
“lovecraftian cosmic horrors” are not real. nothing breaks people’s brains. those pakistani tribesmen that get access to the internet acclimate to it within weeks