This manifests physically as BTs, voidouts, and Timefall, yet these are symptoms rather than causes. The underlying event is metaphysical. The passage from being to nonbeing stalls. Existence acquires backlog. The world fills with entities that should have resolved into absence but instead persist as unreadable presence. Horror emerges not from violence but from ontological illegibility.

Time itself becomes compromised. Aging accelerates or freezes without moral logic. Duration loses neutrality and becomes situational. The future no longer arrives cleanly and the past does not stay buried. History ceases to feel cumulative and begins to feel congested. Survival becomes a problem of circulation rather than progress.

Civilization responds by contracting inward. Politics collapses into infrastructure. America survives only as a networked abstraction, a logistical ghost of itself. Meaning is no longer produced through ideals or narratives but through continuity of function. To connect is not to believe, but to delay collapse.

The use of infants as intermediaries marks the final inversion. Birth, traditionally aligned with futurity, is repurposed as an instrument for perceiving death. Natality is no longer hopeful. It is instrumental. The youngest forms of life are forced to face backward so that the living may move forward at all.

The Death Stranding therefore represents a world in which endings fail. Death loses authority, life loses culmination, and human action is reduced to maintenance. What remains is not apocalypse, but persistence without resolution. A condition where existence continues after the mechanisms that once justified its continuation have broken down.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809694&forum_id=2).#49505910)