[UA] Cannibal Avatar?

[Tim Toner]

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From: Mario Magallanes <aegis at wanadoo.es>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 5:09 AM
Subject: Re: [UA] Cannibal Avatar?


>
>
> Gaston Phillips escribió:
> >
> > > I like the WECHBY, it's a cool social comentary wrapped in a great
game
> > > concept.  The Hero isn't.  The Dark Stalker isn't.
>
> There's Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer, though (and probably some
> others who also fit the role)
>
> -Mario Magallanes

Also the Green River Killer.

There's a great book by the original FBI profiler, John Douglas, called The
Cases That Haunt Us, which explores some of the more infamous crimes of the
past hundred-some years.  He does a nice job of getting to the 'meat' of
each case.  NOt only does he manage to bring up some interesting insights
into cases that have been more or less laid to rest (Jack the Ripper, Lizzie
Borden, etc.), but he explores what these 'unsolved' crimes do to us as a
society.  Does the power we invest in the mythology of Jack the Ripper
create a brass ring too tempting for some people to ignore?  In my mind,
that's the very essence of following an Archetype.  I don't think the dark
stalker thinks, "I should be more like Jack the Ripper."  I think he
identifies with the effect he/she and other Dark Stalkers have had on the
rest of us, and finds a certain comfort in maintaining that presence in our
society.  As dry as the dark stalker seems, he's a little too big a concept
to just ignore.


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