Anti Vampire Center

The automatic enslavement of those with uncertain consciences to the Vampire

In The Excavator (already mentioned in regard to the strategic use of a handicap and the denial of worth), the psychological and physical mistreatment inflicted on Michelino by his drawing teacher cause him to be isolated and excluded from the social context of the class, rather than stimulating a feeling of solidarity toward him on the part of his schoolmates. The class, forced to choose between an innocent victim who is unjustly persecuted and a bullying authority figure, chooses the latter without any hesitation.

A big lump was growing in Michelino’s throat, and he started crying covering his eyes with his hands and giving silent starts. Next to him Santovito, as red as a beetroot and with his face contracted in embarrassment, half-waved his hand for a while, as if trying to aid his friend in some way, but he restrained himself, fading out the gesture in an improbable finger stretching movement. "I’ll fix him", blurted out Accardo. In a purple face […], in two leaps Accardo was near Michelino’s desk, grabbed his ear and started scientifically twisting it, making it rotate beyond any possible endurance, until Michelino let out a shout. […] The boy’s sobs, leaving no space to any word, even less of apology, caused the teacher to go even beyond. Dragging Michelino by his ear always well tight and twisted, he made him stand up, he led him next to the teacher’s desk and, like a rifleman who is about to execute a condemned man, brutally forced him down on his knees, with his face against the wall.

[...] It was the Thursday following the one of the scene. In the past week, Michelino’s eyes had to bear the humiliating glances of his schoolmates, who had refused him any sort of comment, avoiding and isolating him, as though that Thursday morning, who knows what wicked habit of his had been revealed. Nobody but Santovito greeted him first, and instead returned his greeting almost annoyed as though, rather than a "hi" from a schoolmate, had received a small change request from an ambiguous fellow. If someone, then, absent-mindedly, was caught either speaking to him or asking for a look of consent, during the group jokes’ telling, after realizing his gaffe, was overcome by embarrassment and turned his eyes away, as a girl who realizes she requested information to the man who had paid her an ignoble compliment a while before.

The use of vampiric arts to ease one's own tensions by humiliating innocent victims is a social threat of catastrophic proportions. A part of society, in fact, trapped as it is in observing the archaic system of emotional blackmail, will always play the Vampire's game, endlessly proposing its own compulsory choice of giving preference to arrogant bullies and sacrificing innocent victims to a higher requirement: that of gratifying the frustrations and base instincts of those who do not know how to emerge from their own myth.

By sacrificing the innocent to the power of a "social" Vampire, those with uncertain consciences are repeating, as though in blasphemous imitation of the rite of the Mass, the ritual of the sacrifice of themselves that they once made to their own "emotional" Vampire.

The Vampire's social triumph as a result of society's emotional solitude

The fact of having experienced conditions of emotional blackmail in the past causes a state of solitude in part of the social substratum that often results in irrational and unjust choices, even in areas in which no emotional implications come into play at all.

Thus, it is not at all rare to see the case of an employee who is stimulated by secret admiration for an astute, swindling boss (perhaps even aspiring to become his right arm), and who on the other hand, when faced with an employer who is honest and scrupulous, will devalue and betray him, instigating the most effortless "mutinies" and the vilest rebellions against him.

This same tendency, carried to extreme consequences, explains why many times during the course of history the option of dictatorship has been preferred to that of democratic management of public life. Democracy, in fact, requires only the respect of a few simple rules; dictatorship, on the other hand, subjects the people to the same blackmail to which they have been subjected in so many emotional relationships, replacing the bestowing of affection with the concession of preferential treatment from the party.