Despite best efforts to keep a straight face, I can't take "lived experience" seriously. Because zombies.
There's philosophical zombies who live through things without experiencing them,
And normal dead zombies, presumably with normal experiences
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Yeah, you think YOU'RE SO SPECIAL with your fancy "lived experience"—
Check your vitalist privilege!
Nice for YOU if you've got qualia, now it's time for THE REST OF US
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Now that I think of it, vetala not actually a good match to either... I’d go with ghoul as the closest English concept, which I think is Arabic in origin
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FWIW the Transylvanian vampires were vetalas brought to Europe by the Roma who were Rajastani
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It is. Ghul, with a circumflex the tweet can't manage.They feasted on the dead, probably some kind of cultural response to Early Medieval Arab encounters with the vast, alien, terrifying, mostly dead Egyptian civilization.


