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This idea of dying was actually an opportunity to return and then so in this context the zombie is this thing that can happen to you. Someone takes your spirit and prevents it from doing this return to this mythical Africa to Guinea and you're forced not only in the present life if you were enslaved to kind of toil the earth but actually in the afterlife for eternity you are enslaved and you lose your agency your spirit has lost its agency and you are forever um an indentured laborer.

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5d ago

Robin Hood was really just a moniker for an outlaw prior to 1381. But after the Peasants' Revolt, that was when the ballads and the legend of Robin Hood got going and became wildly popular in medieval England, because it spoke to people's desires for a better world, a fairer world, against the rapacious rich.

1mo ago

Odysius in his odyssey is a reflection of the human undergoing any kind of ordeal, battling their sort of higher self and lower self, you know, the perils of hubris, the impossibility of ever returning home.

2mo ago

Ego, pride, wrath, fear, gods, superheroes, mortals, and lots of killing. Welcome to Homer's Iliad, which reads at times like a script for a Tarantino film or the latest installment of the Avengers franchise.

3mo ago

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