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Yakubian Ape's avatar

Genuinely one of the hardest pieces ever published on the entirety of this site, in my opinion. I still think about it all time and I've probably sent it to two dozen people since it was first published.

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Eustace Mullins wrote a book on the biology of parasites ("The Biological X"), noting that many species of plants and animals have a parasitic sub-species that prey upon the non-parasite versions of their species. Across multiple species, these parasite versions diverge in similar physical and behavioral ways. (Physiognomy is real.) What you see as demonic is simply how we the host-variant view the alien behavior of the parasite-variant.

Mullins indicates that there is one noticeable sub-group that seems to be parasitical as the norm, but I would add that all human races seem to have varying rates of individuals that fit in with this sub-groups behavior.

"They are demons" is still a useful heuristic.

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