Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast
Good in Theory is a podcast about political philosophy and how it can help us understand the world today. Want to know what's in Plato's Republic or Hobbes's Leviathan but don't want to read them? This is your pod. I explain my favourite books in political theory in enough detail that you’ll feel like you read them yourself. Deep but not heavy. No experience needed.
Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast
37 - Thought Lab 4: The Psychology of Horror
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Clif Mark
Grizzly bears are scary. But what about zombie grizzly bears? What’s makes something horrifying rather than just frightening?
Paul has a theory. It turns out that humans have a psychological way of organizing the world that also creates the possibility of getting really creeped-out. It helps explain the horror of the zombie grizzly why the old Dracula was creepier than Twilight and how war propaganda can turn enemies into monsters.
References
David Livingstone-Smith (philosopher where Paul’s getting his ideas about essentialism and dehumanization from)
Credits
Paul Sagar
Clayton Tapp (intro)
David Zikovitz (outro)
Sep (art)