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Why We’re Drawn To Stories About Monsters

IDEAS Posted: September 2, 2020 1:32 pm

Loving monsters is a love of chaos, a longing to dance a little with death to better understand the danger. Cryptid violence is more approachable than human violence. It’s easy to ponder ways to control something that is other, a thing. We’ve built entire political and economic structures based upon just that—imperialism, colonialism, racism, sexism. It’s more difficult to figure out how to survive the things we do to ourselves. – LitHub

IDEAS Published: 09.01.20

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