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Originally posted by Roderick Usher
Nothing wrong with you. Bloodlust is hardwired into the human condition and has been explioted by storytellers since story itself began.
-Cave paintings of the hunt and the kill
-The brutals fights in the Epic of Gilgamesh
-Oedipus, Medea, Antigone (throwing sex into the mix)
-Beowulf
-Romeo & Juliet is a freakin' bloodbath (to say nothing of Titus Andronicus)
-The Grand Guignol of Paris
and on and on and on
Us horror geeks are just a little more in tune with (and less afraid of) our inherent bloodlust:D
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a lot of things are hardwired into the human condition - that we've conditioned ourselves out of.
(well most of us)
supposedly there has been a progression away from the time when we bashed someones head in with a rock because we wanted what he had.
i think i understand it - and aknowledge it .... but in tune with it ?
i hope not !