zombie wrote:i feel like it started as a metaphor for aristocrats and distrust for those that had lost favor. politicians are the aristocrats of today, in a way. so i think it can fit, if you apply it that way. i think it's still just used to talk about things in a veiled way, so you wouldn't lose your head or be hung etc, than there actually ever being some kind of physical truth to it.
Hmm interesting. Yes I agree "politicians are the aristocrats of today". It's the concept of the parasitic nature of whichever oligarchy is in power, whether it be an entire social class in a country, or a political clique, or otherwise. There is physical truth to aristocrats being vampires in the sense that they literally lived off the lifeblood of the peasant/working class, which people suffered countless more injuries, illnesses, tribulation and died much younger.
It's almost literally Dracula sucking the blood from innocent victims dry, or the most bestial version being an apex predator feasting on lower breeds to stay alive (eat rather than be eaten).
but this seems like the most adequate place to post !
