Why this fascination for depressing stories lately?

[felix_numinous]

23. What a good question

and an interesting thread!! I 'm really late to this discussion but I was wondering if anyone read Carolyn Myss Sacred Contracts? In it she has a list of archetypes to make cards of and you divine them to superimpose on your natal chart. She lists vampires as an archetype, and I think zombies too--it's a --really-- long list of archetypes, a whole chapter. I found a site with them here:

http://www.myss.com/library/contracts/determine.asp

Years ago I--seriously--started getting into vampire movies and remember deciding to write about it directly and what came to me was that vampires were representational for certain types of people who feed off of energy, this happening in the collective and in some personal encounters...and watching these stories was a way I was facing this archetypal issue in my life (It started when Bush got into office--no mystery there). I have since lost the fascination I had with vampires, because I think I resolved some internal issues I had related to them.

My take on all of the dystopian stories--and I tend to believe that many stories are channeled from the collective--are ways people are working to deal with corrupt leaders, poverty and war, projecting into possible future timelines, as well as shifting into alternative realities with positive and negative outcomes. Art actually does reflect life in many ways!!

I just wanted to share this experience I had related to the discussion--and I love everyone's insight.