Poverty is not simply having no money — it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust. It is not being able to differentiate between employers and exploiters and abusers. It is contempt for the simplistic illusion of meritocracy — the idea that what we get is what we work for. It is knowing that your mother, with her arthritic joints and her maddening insomnia and her post-traumatic stress disordered heart, goes to work until two in the morning waiting tables for less than minimum wage, or pushes a janitor’s cart and cleans the shit-filled toilets of polished professionals. It is entering a room full of people and seeing not only individual people, but violent systems and stark divisions. It is the violence of untreated mental illness exacerbated by the fact that reality, from some vantage points, really does resemble a psychotic nightmare. It is the violence of abuse and assault which is ignored or minimized by police officers, social services, and courts of law. Poverty is conflict. And for poor kids lucky enough to have the chance to “move up,” it is the conflict between remaining oppressed or collaborating with the oppressor.
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Submitted by spirited-astray
Many classic horror icons and other disturbing creatures share common characteristics. Pale skin, dark, sunken eyes, elongated faces, sharp teeth, and the like. These images inspire horror and revulsion in many, and with good reason. The characteristics shared by these faces are imprinted in the human mind.
Many things frighten humans instinctively. The fear is natural, and does not need to be reinforced in order to terrify. The fears are species-wide, stemming from dark times in the past when lightning could mean the burning of your tree home, predators could be hiding in the dark, heights could make poor footing lethal, and a spider or snake bite could mean certain death.
The question you have to ask yourself is this:
What happened, deep in the hidden eras before history began, that could effect the entire human race so evenly as to give the entire species a deep, instinctual, and lasting fear of pale beings with dark, sunken eyes, razor sharp teeth, and elongated faces?
… Just be careful out there.
This is one of the coolest things I have ever read on tumblr.
Well shit. This has got to b inebof the most interesting and mind blowing things I’ve read. Like wow. Ik I’ve posted this before but everytime I read it im just still shocked that people haven’t come to this conclusion before. It’s rather creepy lol
Sharks
Our very genetics know not to fuck with sharks.
lol that’s just yolandi though
this is really cool like an alien or something idk…….
I find this kind of hot um……
No, no, no. It’s not one thing. The solid black eyes mean we can’t determine gaze direction, which is an extraordinarily important part of human interaction. That’s why humans have white sclera (chimps and other primates mostly have dark sclera) - so we can see where other people are looking. Sharp teeth? Well, we evolved on the veldt alongside some major predators, lions, leopards, hyenas, and so on, not to mention critters like Dinofelis, a cat specifically built to hunt primates. Also, there’s likely a leftover module in the brain from when our own ancestors had oversized canines they would display in threat. Since almost all animals with teeth will snarl if threatened (it’s the most basic expression, besides neutral) it would be in our best interest to retain a fear of sharp, exposed teeth even when we don’t have them ourselves. As for the pale skin/sunken eyes/bony faces, we’re probably fearing them as symptoms of disease. It’s hard for modern people to subjectively appreciate the toll disease took on our ancestors, but you can bet the ancestors who were repelled by the look of a sickly person were that much more likely not to catch the disease themselves, and therefore survive to pass on their genes.
So no, there were no caveman vampires.
^ the more you know!
As popular as that creepypasta is I could never take is seriously for the reasons above. It’s kind of a no-brainer why those characteristics are frightening, to the point that the ending feels too corny to even be charmingly corny.
I am a creepiness snob :(
^ I too have always found faults with this creepypasta
The above creepypasta reminds me of so many that are just lazy in execution. Like, there was a story to be had, but then they got lazy or drunk or felt masturbation would be a better waste of their time.
