In a nutshell my take is that all mythological monsters have roots in primal and universal human experiences and fears and the most popular ones are the ones that trigger sympathetic emotion—that gives you a base and then cultural storytelling tacks on bits of lore over time
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Also many monsters are just hyper-embellished takes on methods of interaction and activity humans have with each other Symbolic representations of the evils we do to one another
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Vampires are just embellished sociopaths with symbolic representations of how they exploit and manipulate
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I'm surprised more people don't notice this, it seems like a really obvious association
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Consider also the strong aristocratic association with vampires that's not an accident
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ahhhh I'm getting sucked in BACK TO WORK WARMTH
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check out the term "psychic vampire" if you haven't come across it in material on group dynamics
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I actually think that's a case where the monster symbol swings back and becomes a new symbol for a different social phenomenon than the one that spawned symbols looping around in patterns like an ouroboros
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my thoughts on symbols lately in general have really transformed it's fascinating a thread for another time
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we should talk about this on drugs after the war
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can you host a group chat/conference call for that? cuz I also want to smoke drugs and talk about symbolic mythos, horror tropes, and monstrous aspects of human society.
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oh man we could have a VC session probably looking at a screen would be wild
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