Banksters as vampires and wraiths

[Mist]

Found this link on Crooks and Liars ("Mike's Blog Roundup"). Says it all.

http://lancemannion.typepad.com/lance_mannion/2010/08/vampires-wraith-bankers-and-other-villains-meet-for-dinner-at-the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe.html

[patrice]

1. Ooooooo!! Wraiths!! How utterly apt. I always thought those tv characters were REALLY effective.

I wonder whatever happened to that Stargate series.

[laughingliberal]

2. K & R nt

[Stargazer09]

3. Very accurate portrayal

Of the greedy types in our world.

Makes me want to watch Stargate. Any series that contains such fascinating (and evil) creatures sounds interesting to me. :D

[RandomThoughts]

4. Brilliant comment in there.

n fact, the more humans insist on their right to exist as something other than lunch by fighting for their lives to the point of taking the lives of the Wraith trying to feed on them, the angrier and more determined to show who’s in charge the Wraith get.

Which is kind of stupid of them. If you feel you have to prove to a person he’s not a person you’ve pretty much conceded his personhood from the beginning.

That is so true, it proves people really have free will to choose, if they did not how could they choose to not be afraid or not be a meal. It proves limitations on the 'wraith' in that metaphor.


And there is also some great things also, that do not want anything from people.


They will invite humans they take a liking to into their circle. They will make them one of their own. While for form’s sake this means a bite on the neck that turns a person into one of the bloodsucking undead, for all intents and purposes becoming a vampire is like joining an exclusive club. You become a member because another member decides you are worthy of membership.

Which is a way of saying that personhood, with all its rights and privileges, isn’t inherent. It’s granted to you by other persons of superior standing deciding you are good enough to be regarded as one of their own.

Many times groups use that to try and get a person to claim they are superior, and set requirements on joining that group. A person has to have certain same ideas, and get rid of contradictory ones. Secrecy is a common idea in that group, as is ideas on how to treat people.

And most of 'joining them' is really a long process of training someone to be like them, with carrots like ideas of membership. The group I like does not require you to join anything, nor change what you choose to feel or think.


Also the concept of being a superior race happens in many contexts for a reason, it allows people to break empathy with people they live off of, that is why it is in so many places. Some actually think they are aliens, some think in terms of royal blood lines and special heritages, but they all make it easier to not care about people they live off.

There are many delusions that try and break empathy.

[Mist]

5. Yes--we, as "lunch," are actually objecting to being eaten. What nerve! It's interesting that

they still feel they need to come up with rationales for their behavior--maybe it's not entirely for our "benefit," but they actually have a grain-of-sand-sized-conscience that requires the "elite" rationale they use.

[patrice]

6. b.i.n.g.o.

:hi:

[patrice]

7. I like your analysis for how it shows that this has to do with MUCH more than money.

Membership affects who you are, what you think, how you feel. Such Groupthink is dangerous not only to you, as YOU may become the next meal, it is dangerous to our survival as a species, as I believe Earth is starting to demonstrate to us as we speak.

[MisterP]

8. and if you object to being drained, you're making life harder for the vampires, and thus the others

they suck

(actual anti-Missouri Prop C argument)

[blindpig]

9. I never did like vampires..

they remind me too much of capitalists.