Sam Vaknin
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472 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Feb
Sam Vaknin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the father's role is to protect.
Yet in the Grimm, in Hansel and Gretel, the story, they both fail.
The mother abandons the children twice, by the way, not once.
And the father is not there.
He lives far away in a cabin, which is inaccessible.
They have to ride the back of a duck to get there.
And it's a talking duck.
Don't ask.
Horror.
So what this story is telling us, actually, is that the expectations of the children are crucial when it comes to parasites.
I insist that the children in the story do commit a parasite.
They commit it by proxy.
They kill the witch.
But if you look at the role of the witch in the story, she is a mother.
She gives them shelter.
She gives them food.
She gives them a bed to sleep in.
She is totally maternal.
And then they kill her.
And so...
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