Describes the right wing propaganda machine too.
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Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Soulless ✅
Spreads misinformation ✅
Blood sucking parasite ✅
Needs to be invited into your life ✅
Run by a larger blood sucking parasite ✅
Turns people into other blood sucking parasites ✅
Vampires are just social media for the 1700s
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Knows all your private information ✅
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Vampires are capitalism!
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 days ago
This but unironically. I’ve always viewed them as manifestation fear of nobles/oligarchs. I’ve seen people compare zombies to things like over consumption and consumerism which I’m less convinced by.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
They all seem particularly salient metaphors, this can’t be some kind of mistake. Either the authors have incredible insights or these are some kind of ancestrally recurring patterns. At this point, vampires, ghouls and zombies have become part of our daily lives, they are absolutely everywhere
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Yes, monster myths have always held the function of moral lessons for the many cultures that birthed them. The Wendigo is a moral metaphor for the taboo against eating human flesh, and the necessity of working together through harsh winters. The Vampire is a moral warning against demanding excess in all things carnal, monetary, and gluttonous, and for this reason it resonated with Victorian england. The zombie, however, was originally just someone who had been drugged into submission. The modern zombie does, however, make an excellent metaphor for herd mentality and over-consumption. We change our monsters (or make new ones) to fit the social mores and taboos of the culture of the time. There is a reason that many examples of “The Monster” in literature focus not on the actual villainy of the Monster, but on the villainy of the other humans in the story. Monsters are a mirror, held up to the face of the reader, demanding that we stare at the worst parts of what it is to be human.
rockerface@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Also, unable to do any self-reflection