'Killing the Dead' Review: Watch the Graveyard
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·October 23, 2025Marshferm
Historians and anthropologists develop neat explanations for horror tropes when genetics has them beat: animals are attracted to and entranced by the punishment and death of abberents. Just read Sapolsky’s Behave and linger in the punishment chapter. Even microbes do this.
SketchySeaBeast
You don't think that you're being reductive?
Marshferm
Actually, narrative explanations like the vampire book are exponentially the most reductive. Cause/effect, story. On the other hand, evolution is billions of hours of trial end error making footsteps of niche evasion.
Gotta think big, stories are puny both in terms of explanation load and their total existence in evolutionary time. They are fun over the dinner table but that’s about as definitive as they get.
SketchySeaBeast
No, I meant your approach to the subject, having found an argument you find compelling and dismissing any others out of hand.
https://archive.ph/rsO3B