Discussion regarding Twilight ヴァンパイア and reply to Drisina at link
First Part:
The thing is Drisina, one cannot によって fiat change a legend to whatever one very well pleases with. ヴァンパイア have been in mythology from the 17th century, e.g. Countess Elizabeth Bathory who alledgedly drank her female servants blood to stay young.
So what Stephenie Meyer does is that she takes the vampire-myth, and discards the gorier details and imperfections, replaces them with what she thinks they should be and et voila, we have Edward Cullen.
Now I shall dissect why most people think its a bad thing to do. Recall that I 発言しました the vampire-mythology has been in existence since the 17th century, and have been established in its modern form によって Bram Stoker and his likes in the 19th century.
It is per the standards of social inertia that conservatism will then be dominant. After all, the same story has been in circulation since the 19th century, do あなた not think that people will get used to that prevailing model? Yes, I applaud change but such large a change will often be the cause of extreme responses.
によって analogy, who here would dislike the idea of calling Jedi's mechanical drones which rolls - literally rolls - around the universe in big starships? Who here would dislike the idea of the 星, つ星 Trek Enterprise being a large 宇宙 limousine and only a large 宇宙 limousine?
I would, I think most ファン of both 星, つ星 Wars and 星, つ星 Trek would deplore that model.
The thing is Drisina, Meyer's ヴァンパイア are up against 400 年 old ingrained traditions that has permeated every social class, do あなた not believe that most people will dislike that idea and criticise it?
It's related to out-group hostility Drisina, anything unfamiliar will be first disliked then if rigorously tested and proven that the general population likes it after a large amount of time, it will be received as tradition.
秒 Part:
Yes, I hate out-group hostlity and xenophobia, but it is only some forms of it that I hate, it is those forms that have been hijacked from their original purposes. Originally, the purpose of xenophobia is exemplified by:
"A human meets one unfamiliar entity out on the African continent some 10 million years ago, he または she does not know this entity. For all that her または she knows, this entity may carry a lethal disease または is a dangerous animal, in which both cases he または she will die. Death for the selfish genes in his または hers body is monumentally bad, for they want to propagate and prosper, if the host they reside in dies, then there will be no chance of propagation, therefore they programme the host to avoid unfamilliar situations just in case those situations are dangerous."
Now because we are humans and because those same selfish genes have granted us the development of a moral and thinking brain, to which we are definitely solely possessing, we can override the evolutionary obstacles that is out-group hostility. Therefore it is possible for us to do things not to the liking of our in-group.
But what is the good part of "xenophobia" then? When we meet the same kind of people around our offices, read the same stuffs we usually read, does nothing out of the ordinary of our lives, we have stability.
Now one will probably infer that a normal life is pretty bleak. But lets give it a thought, if everyone did something new everyday, how long will it be before everything is descended into chaos? For a life without stability is inherently self-destructive. Balance, ladies and gentlemen, is my obvious conclusion.
Part Three and conclusion:
How did I start with discussing Meyer's ヴァンパイア and transgress into a dissection of xenophobia people? xD
I conclude that what Meyer did was one of the bigger leaps of vampire mythology we have observed lately. But it is, at least for now, too vast a leap to be successfully appreciated. One does not impose vast flying changes to a mythology without dire consequences ladies and gentlemen. Balance, as I have noted earlier is the middle way. We cannot have a stagnant vampire mythology, because everything will be dull after ten years, but we cannot have vast changes all the time too, because after ten years we will be asking ourselves 質問 like: "What is a vampire?" Now would that be a good thing? Reply!
First Part:
The thing is Drisina, one cannot によって fiat change a legend to whatever one very well pleases with. ヴァンパイア have been in mythology from the 17th century, e.g. Countess Elizabeth Bathory who alledgedly drank her female servants blood to stay young.
So what Stephenie Meyer does is that she takes the vampire-myth, and discards the gorier details and imperfections, replaces them with what she thinks they should be and et voila, we have Edward Cullen.
Now I shall dissect why most people think its a bad thing to do. Recall that I 発言しました the vampire-mythology has been in existence since the 17th century, and have been established in its modern form によって Bram Stoker and his likes in the 19th century.
It is per the standards of social inertia that conservatism will then be dominant. After all, the same story has been in circulation since the 19th century, do あなた not think that people will get used to that prevailing model? Yes, I applaud change but such large a change will often be the cause of extreme responses.
によって analogy, who here would dislike the idea of calling Jedi's mechanical drones which rolls - literally rolls - around the universe in big starships? Who here would dislike the idea of the 星, つ星 Trek Enterprise being a large 宇宙 limousine and only a large 宇宙 limousine?
I would, I think most ファン of both 星, つ星 Wars and 星, つ星 Trek would deplore that model.
The thing is Drisina, Meyer's ヴァンパイア are up against 400 年 old ingrained traditions that has permeated every social class, do あなた not believe that most people will dislike that idea and criticise it?
It's related to out-group hostility Drisina, anything unfamiliar will be first disliked then if rigorously tested and proven that the general population likes it after a large amount of time, it will be received as tradition.
秒 Part:
Yes, I hate out-group hostlity and xenophobia, but it is only some forms of it that I hate, it is those forms that have been hijacked from their original purposes. Originally, the purpose of xenophobia is exemplified by:
"A human meets one unfamiliar entity out on the African continent some 10 million years ago, he または she does not know this entity. For all that her または she knows, this entity may carry a lethal disease または is a dangerous animal, in which both cases he または she will die. Death for the selfish genes in his または hers body is monumentally bad, for they want to propagate and prosper, if the host they reside in dies, then there will be no chance of propagation, therefore they programme the host to avoid unfamilliar situations just in case those situations are dangerous."
Now because we are humans and because those same selfish genes have granted us the development of a moral and thinking brain, to which we are definitely solely possessing, we can override the evolutionary obstacles that is out-group hostility. Therefore it is possible for us to do things not to the liking of our in-group.
But what is the good part of "xenophobia" then? When we meet the same kind of people around our offices, read the same stuffs we usually read, does nothing out of the ordinary of our lives, we have stability.
Now one will probably infer that a normal life is pretty bleak. But lets give it a thought, if everyone did something new everyday, how long will it be before everything is descended into chaos? For a life without stability is inherently self-destructive. Balance, ladies and gentlemen, is my obvious conclusion.
Part Three and conclusion:
How did I start with discussing Meyer's ヴァンパイア and transgress into a dissection of xenophobia people? xD
I conclude that what Meyer did was one of the bigger leaps of vampire mythology we have observed lately. But it is, at least for now, too vast a leap to be successfully appreciated. One does not impose vast flying changes to a mythology without dire consequences ladies and gentlemen. Balance, as I have noted earlier is the middle way. We cannot have a stagnant vampire mythology, because everything will be dull after ten years, but we cannot have vast changes all the time too, because after ten years we will be asking ourselves 質問 like: "What is a vampire?" Now would that be a good thing? Reply!
I'm going to start doing 記事 like this because I think it's fun and I just wanna see who thinks one character is better than the other.
Before あなた guys start, let me tell あなた my opinion. I think that Bellatrix is the better villan because she's mean, crazy and cruel but also happens to have good fighting skills, even though I hate her for hurting Hermione. She's also not afraid [potterheads correct me if i'm wrong] to kill others. She pretty much has the ultimate personality and guts that Villaness's have.
Those are my opinions. Now... feel free to add yours!! Enjoy:)
Before あなた guys start, let me tell あなた my opinion. I think that Bellatrix is the better villan because she's mean, crazy and cruel but also happens to have good fighting skills, even though I hate her for hurting Hermione. She's also not afraid [potterheads correct me if i'm wrong] to kill others. She pretty much has the ultimate personality and guts that Villaness's have.
Those are my opinions. Now... feel free to add yours!! Enjoy:)
first off i would like to say that i used to like t but everyone ruined it.
hp is so much better because its about friendship and standing up for your self it shows fear and judement and kind and tenderness which in twilight its just about useing people to benifit あなた and doin iti mean in twilight, it takes edward and bella what a week to fall in 愛 it takes ron and herimone over 7 years and harry starts to relize he loves ginny after 5 years! and not to mention hp is fun for everyone some people might be afraid of the fact of a man eating vampire watching them not knowing when there going to attack out of hunger. so when あなた "twilight" ファン find some real evidence that twilight has any real moral to it let me know cause i really like to know wat あなた think. または just コメント on this 記事 PEACE, sy-sy
hp is so much better because its about friendship and standing up for your self it shows fear and judement and kind and tenderness which in twilight its just about useing people to benifit あなた and doin iti mean in twilight, it takes edward and bella what a week to fall in 愛 it takes ron and herimone over 7 years and harry starts to relize he loves ginny after 5 years! and not to mention hp is fun for everyone some people might be afraid of the fact of a man eating vampire watching them not knowing when there going to attack out of hunger. so when あなた "twilight" ファン find some real evidence that twilight has any real moral to it let me know cause i really like to know wat あなた think. または just コメント on this 記事 PEACE, sy-sy