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Just from what I understand of the origin in Haiti, it was, the idea of zombies was created by African slaves who were trying

to we're basically making sense of and yeah just like creating a way to understand their experience of enslavement, like you said, to be

undead and yet not fully living and to be, you know, trapped in the human form I think is what is what the origin of of it is and so like yeah I think it came from the anxiety of being

knowing that you were under control of these of these people who and which is

funny because when you think about it like slave masters were the unhuman ones, right?

And I think that's, like we're talking about this kind of flip

because zombies were originally about the anxiety of being

stuck in your body and yet being incapable of you know having agency in it.

Oh, come on. The thing is is that we're not actually in a TV show because being an academic is incredibly boring and nobody would ever want to watch that. And nobody wins anything ever and the stakes are incredibly low.

I do, I do, they're like solo they're solo.

solo.

You watch movies like with academics they make our lives look like way cooler than they are like

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