Jun 16, 2026 · 38 min · 13 segments
In which we discuss the life of Catherine Oxenberg and exactly how many connections a person can have to trafficking and shady cults before it starts getting really weird Music by Echoplanar Please…
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About a year ago, I watched the film Silo, or 120 Days of Sodom.
It was made by a communist filmmaker, Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was brutally murdered in a case that still is very unclear before its release.
Many people who watch this movie focus on the sheer grotesquery.
You will find it in pretty much any list of most disturbing or hardest to watch movies, and it does deserve that reputation.
But to focus on these things is to ignore the fact that the shock value has a purpose, and it is very much tied to the class politics of the man who made it.
The question that has endured for me is what does it truly mean to be part of a long aristocratic bloodline? A single person can lose touch when their material circumstances drastically change.
But deep down inside of them, there must still be a memory of the child or the young adult they were, even if buried.
But what happens when you never have those memories to begin with? When your life is fundamentally different than everybody else's from the moment you're born? And how many generations must pass through this before it's bred out of your DNA entirely? Before a sort of psychological Habsburg jaw develops, and you've been bred into something recognizably different? Welcome to the Dust Light Archives.
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