Maybe you've seen already, but Historia de lo Oculto has a remarkably similar premise (replaces Carson with Firing Line, and has several overlapping story beats) and sticks it much better imo.
And that's just the way that I feel
Your Phantasm wc is evocative and dreamlike as hell... very fitting!
The United States is right now, in the present, denying the Navajo Nation water rights. The idea that we must deny oppressed groups justice because of your wormy theoreticals about some sci-fi mass purging of the cities nightmare Land Back scenario is so morally sick it's hard to look at your words.
Notice how you have to keep retreating to analogy and hypotheticals instead of the facts on the ground in occupied Palestine?
Keel's Mothman Prophecies is excellent on a similar point, which is that we create category errors (and disserve reality) by only ever looking at the "plausible" encounters that fit into neat boxes, ie cryptid, UFO, when in fact lots of people have strange encounters with far more unrational things.
Amazing how soft-pedaled this is, and yet still incredibly damning. No doubt someone in this community who imagines themselves anti- racist is sitting on a stack of receipts that reach the moon.
Comet for toilet bowl