The Biggest Threat to Humanity? Black Goo

You are not supposed to be aware of this. You are not supposed to know that you are being controlled by a substance that was originally sold to us as the key to the future. There is only one place where the proof of its existence can be found. Science fiction has it hidden.

Black goo, the science-fictional name for the science-factual Graphene oxide, has appeared in two sci-fi shows this year. It was seen in earlier seasons of the show. Intertextual seepages are too consistent to be coincidences. There are signs that need to be watched.

The latest season of Westworld shows the robots controlling humankind. The robot-in-chief indicates that they accomplished this using flies, parasites, and black gunk. The stuff is in a hidden place. It seems like the medium in which the parasites are grown is similar to the one used to grow the OG in The X-files.

You remember the middle of the third season? A diving suit belonging to one of the French divers who discovered an alien vessel in the ocean is covered in oil. Black oil, black cancer, black bile, black blood are all the same thing. Is it possible that the oil is used by aliens to jump? As far as Westworld is concerned, that is black-goo-as-medium. The whole truth is known by X-files. In season 5, we learn that the body-snatcher is avermiform organisms that get attached to the pineal glands. It is said that black goo is not just medium. It's a monster.

Sometimes the victims of black engooment in X-Files survive, so long as the stuff is safe. The victims in the Alien franchise are not the best known modern ones. One of the franchise's tie-in video games says that "any living thing that comes into direct contact with the black goo" will either die horrible or become monsters. There's a lot of this in Prometheus. Sigourney Weaver is in a short film called Rakka, which is about aliens who control minds and destroy buildings.

The sci-fi record is hard to understand on the workings of black gunk. In Luc Besson's Lucy, it's a bit of a transhumanist supercomputing thing. Lucy's Lucy is also starring in Under the Skin, as an alien who drowns and eats men in a sea of black gunk. The way in which separate realities bleed into and out of each other is depicted in Severance. There is a kind of interdimensional intrusion in the show. The points are more important than the details. The medium is that the monster is the message and that it is the source of all evil on the planet.