vampires

So... for my American Thought and Culture class, we have to do a news report every week. We have to switch up the ways we get news (so if I do a website one week, the next should be TV, radio, or magazine etc). This week I did a magazine. Granddad subscribed to National Review for me. I am not sure if you guys know what that is.... but it is a very republican magazine that is usually all about politics.... which I hate. But I was reading an article about vampires and LOVED it! The author was writing about how the change in perspective of vampires is a symptom of a changing society. Vampires used to be scary, evil, and creepy. But now, they are loving, kind, helpful, and attractive. Society has, and still is, becoming very relativistic. This relativistic view on life means that we can't say vampires are evil... it isn't their fault! I think thats crap. The author also talks about how in the grinch, the old movie simply showed him as being bad, but the newer movie gave background so that we could see why he was bad. Excuses. And the Wizard of Oz.... Wicked was made to show why the Wicked Witch of the West became bad. It wasn't her fault... she isn't bad.... she is just misunderstood. Like I said before... crap. I can't word what the author said in his closing paragraph any better than he did, so I am going to type it here:

"Nowadays, however, vampirism and its related maladies are just alternative lifestyles. Condemning them is an unforgivable rendering of judgement and a crime against the imperatives of moral relativism. A society that has trouble recognizing monsters in art probably will have difficulty identifying terrorists in its airports. And its horror stories will become bloodless. When everybody's perspective is equally valid, vampires lose their bite. We may have gained friends, but we've lost enemies--and a world without enemies is the stuff of a dull utopian fairytale" (Miller in National Review).

It is so true! This really got me thinking so i decided to blog about it :D


On a more personal note... cut throat mafia was AMAZING on saturday! So much fun! Really creepy too! And my guest never showed up for Corban Experience :( I was bummed but it did give me more freedom at Limelight.... which was AMAZING! We have an amazing ASB and they went all out for this dance off!