Michael Anthony Alberta

Plague Dr Michael Anthony Alberta

Plague Dr is a frightening historical perspective intended for a YA/Adult audience. 666 years ago, a famine resulted after the Black Death plague arrived in Europe from China. I theorize that humanity's shift toward behavioral modernity didn't occur until the time of Dracula (as in Vlad the Impaler). Traumatized, we might have been in a state of collective schizophrenia, displaying the psychological aspects of zombification. For example, diseases like Tuberculosis caused visitations from people who ate themselves (and others) to death. Such viruses also displayed the physical aspects of (what we'd consider) zombies. For instance, Bubonic, septicaemic and pneumonic infections ooze pus and gush blood. Like zombies, I've speculated on vampires and werewolves and found both wolves and bats carry rabies, a disease that causes those infected to bite others. A susceptibility to garlic and light is also a symptom of rabies, a condition that, ironically, leads to nocturnal sleep patterns. Furthermore, those infected tend to roam (and foam) around with blood frothing out of their mouths. Cannibalism not only came from so-called "zombies" but also among the "self-aware." I'm not suggesting monsters existed, but how do we know if a murder attributed to cannibalism has any association with them? Nonetheless, the monsters in Plague Dr reflect Carl Jung's shadow (what I call the Projection). In this sense, monsters are an unconscious aspect of our personality, which the conscious ego does not identify in itself. Monsters are a representation of our unconscious as a whole. They embody the compensating values to those held by our conscious personality, our dark side. Those aspects of ourselves that exist, but which we do not acknowledge. Plague Dr remixed history according to mirrored events and figures that surround our collective unconscious. Through Plague Dr's work, I explore cyclical timelines. Click Here for a breakdown of my Main Historical Claims. I borrow from Julian Jaynes, a psychologist at Yale who built a case that human brains existed in this zombie (what he calls a bicameral) state until as recently as the Bronze Age. He cites evidence from many diverse sources, including Homer's Iliad and the Epic of Gilgamesh. I then fused Vlad III Dracula's narrative with the New Chronology, a pseudohistorical Russian conspiracy theory which argues that events of antiquity occurred in the 15th-century.