Why yes, there is a vast world devouring monster with its tendrils encircling all of us, and it’s plainly visible once you notice it, and it’s everywhere. But you come off as insane when you try to tell other people about it.
Is SCP-3125 an allegory for capitalism? Shit.
and we can only really see the shadow it’s casting on the world?
I mean, arguably that’s the purpose of Marx’s dialectical method in Capital. You can’t just glance around at random and arrive at a self-consistent conclusion about the broader abstract structures of capitalism. You have to just keep clawing at it until you arrive at some binding kernel of truth.