Why zombies, robots, clowns freak us out

[alice wellintown]

> so, like zombie is a thanatoid nearer my couch to thee.

and not, a monster like the one frankesnstein brought to life; out of
africa and into hati, the zombie is a slave, and though the state of
the tubed-out brains and bodies of thanatoids is not quite what we
think of when we think of slave, the empty brain, the control, is much
the same; of course, it is the irony, that mixture of catholic
tradition with african, by people whoalways knew slavery, though not
the middle passage and the brutal and violent slavery of the white
devils, that Pynchon calls attention to; he is always keen to
complicate the historical binaries. not that Dixon was a passive fist
in a wake brim, not that slavery was not an english enterprize before
the english condemned it, not that zombies did not resist, both,
enslaved and enslaver resisted, but that zombies were, by some black
arts and corruption of magik, a mob. the irony that this power, or
fear of it, fear of being made a slave, a zombie, was co-opted and
used to enslave millions, is, like the tube power that made of the
american an obese consumer of things who valued these trinkets over
experiences, over human and humane contact, is a major theme from V.
to AGTD, so, yes, people do read this crap.   it works well if we
suspend the science, the cognative science, and dwell not on
consciousness, but onthe soul; so the spirit, the soul, has been taken
and given and the zombie, a slave, has no free will. now that is a
topic.
http://www.skepdic.com/zombies.html