Jim Kenney
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer and Today's Vampires
Posted on: 06/24/2012 15:43
Watched Abrahm Lincoln: Vampire Slayer Friday and heard earlier on CBC the concern that the Trans-Pacific Agreement on Trade inlcudes provisions that give foreign investors more rights than local investors, governments or citizens. It struck me that the modern day vampires are that select group of mostly faceless "foreign investors" who are succeeding on convincing/buying national leaders that is in the interest of these leaders to grant "foreign investors" special rights that will allow them to such the financial life blood out of all levels of government as well as most ordinary citizens.
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Kimmio
Posted on: 06/25/2012 18:16
I think it's even more than that, Jim. (btw, I read an article about this show, but missed watching it). I think the modern day vampires are those attempting to suck the souls out of us with consumerism and holding up superficial desires and promoting fear...expecting us to hold those as our ideals at the expense of human decency and care for one another and the planet we live on...trying to limit what we learn and dummy us down so we walk around in ignorant oblivion....or is that the Zombie Apocalypse? I'm so confused.
InannaWhimsey
Posted on: 06/25/2012 18:40
Jim "OMG, they Killed" Kenney,
I heard that was a pretty fun movie :3
Mendalla
Posted on: 06/25/2012 18:44
The interesting thing is that the notion of capitalists (or other ruling classes) as vampires living off the blood of the people goes back a good ways. Certainly, I've seen Marxist/Socialist cartoons from the nineteenth century based on the premise and I'm sure I've read that it was applied to landed nobility oppressing the peasantry as well. It's a very compelling and useful image politically.
Mendalla
trishcuit
Posted on: 06/27/2012 18:27
I read "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'" Monster mash-up also by Seth Grahame-Smith the author of "Vampire Slayer" . It was a hoot.
InannaWhimsey
Posted on: 06/27/2012 19:14
I read "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'" Monster mash-up also by Seth Grahame-Smith the author of "Vampire Slayer" . It was a hoot.
I know the book :3
Someone actually did a live stream performance of P & P & Z a few years ago...it was hilarious!
There was also a fun horror flick called "The Washingtonians" which went into what George Washington was Really into way back when...:3