December 10, 2010

• zombies

   This is the best article about zombies and popular culture that I have read in a long time.  Thanks for the share, E.  Man, I just love zombie movies!  Did anyone else watch AMC's The Walking Dead!?  I loved it!

  Of course I recommend reading the Full article

  However, here are my favorite excerpts:

  What if contemporary people are less interested in seeing depictions of their unconscious fears and more attracted to allegories of how their day-to-day existence feels? That would explain why so many people watched that first episode of “The Walking Dead”: They knew they would be able to relate to it.

  A lot of modern life is exactly like slaughtering zombies.

  Every zombie war is a war of attrition. It’s always a numbers game. And it’s more repetitive than complex. In other words, zombie killing is philosophically similar to reading and deleting 400 work e-mails on a Monday morning or filling out paperwork that only generates more paperwork, or following Twitter gossip out of obligation, or performing tedious tasks in which the only true risk is being consumed by the avalanche. The principal downside to any zombie attack is that the zombies will never stop coming; the principal downside to life is that you will be never be finished with whatever it is you do.

  The Internet reminds of us this every day.

  This is our collective fear projection: that we will be consumed. Zombies are like the Internet and the media and every conversation we don’t want to have. All of it comes at us endlessly (and thoughtlessly), and — if we surrender — we will be overtaken and absorbed. Yet this war is manageable, if not necessarily winnable. As long we keep deleting whatever’s directly in front of us, we survive.

  Then Chuck Klosterman, the author, goes on to debunk the Zombies vs. Vampires fad.  Amazing.  I love this author and article!
  

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