I have never really understood the prominence and popularity of zombies in pop culture. I haven’t watched many zombie movies, engaged in zombie video games, or read zombie literature, but I have friends who watch the Walking Dead religiously. On the surface, zombies appear as just a grotesque form of entertainment that can parallel war movies, yet, “As worst-case strategic analysis, it reveals the human future that is coming but we still cannot yet bear to face.” After reading this article it makes sense to me that the reason people are drawn to this phenomena is because the movies, video games and books associated with it demonstrate fears we have, and how to overcome them. “Apocalyptic lit helps us conquer fear. And when we are no longer afraid, we can do.” So Zombie apocalypses symbolize a loss of power and complete chaos as societies fall apart, and those who survive or are heroes typically possess characteristics we all wish to have: selflessness, empathy, the ability to cooperate and put the good of the whole above yourself. In a sense zombie films and all of its related trends desensitize society to the idea of an apocalypse, and the unpredicted chaos we all fear so much, as Vlahos says, “It is not the message here that counts but the taking onboard of the message--repeatedly--that actually preps us emotionally and intellectually.”
Eng 201 Leilei Lin When I first read Zombies, everything in the article doesn’t make sense to me. The way I analyzing Zombies is that the dead body brought back to the life by supernatural force. When I according to my logic to read through the article. I didn’t understand at all. What “zombie virus” is? What “zombie tale” is? And the “literature” keeps it live. In addition, I literally see a crushed wall with a lot of people. I am just so confused. The zombies’ tale is a fixed version of bottlenecks. The article says “the worst of these came 150,000 years ago at Pinnacle Point in South Africa. There, the last remnants of humanity, a few ragged bands of us, fought of extinction by climate change. We survived.” It sounds superhero to me. The last hope to save the human from climate change was the remnants of humanity. How did they fight for nature disaster, unless they had superpower to against nature? This idea is still continuing. Nowadays, When people met terrified like 9/11, WWII. People like to use “shock and Awe” method to solve what bad were happened. The real world doesn’t work that way. The reality is the reality. What happened was happened. You cannot use zombie stratagem to change the worst situation in the real life to become in a better ending. I think the movie or literature related to zombie’s tale like World war Z or walking death just make people hope and delightful. The zombie cultures are like fairy tale and only weren’t happening in the reality. The existing of zombie phenomenal only makes us feel better but nothing else.
When I first saw this title, I was like God help me because I hate Zombies. I couldn’t stop myself thinking about zombies. I just feel scared when I saw the picture of Zombies. Some friends recommended me to watch The Walking Dead. When I watched 1 episode of The Walking Dead, I couldn’t continue watching. It’s just gross and I had a nightmare about it. I dreamed that there were a bunch of Zombies with bloody bodies and huge teeth biting through my whole town. In the dream, I saw the neighborhood on the street being eaten by Zombies and some of them turned into a Zombie right away. There is one Zombie that found out I was watching the whole scene and they were walking toward my house. I was so scared and ran to hide in the bathroom. I was awake with rapid heartbeats. After reading this article, instead of reading the book, World War Z, I actually watched this movie with my friend. I finally understand the phenomenon about zombies. It is a scary world where everyone is on their own, trying to survive unless there is a way to stop the apocalypse.
I’ve heard about zombies for lots of years now. Many people believe in them. Popular video games have also been made for zombies. They became more popular than any video game I have experienced and this helped the rise of this phenomena. I never really understood why the concept of zombies ever existed other than just a scary looking thing. It wasn’t until I watched the movie World War Z that I understood more behind why the concept of zombies exists. People with life threatening diseases weren’t attacked by the zombies because the zombies already knew that there was no point of going after them. People with an illness didn’t really fear the zombies because they already know what it feels like to actually be helpless. The people that weren’t ill, were scared of the zombies a lot more, but started to become more prepared for them and realize that running isn’t going to take them too far. The same situation is here in Vlahos article. As I read “Apocalyptic lit helps us conquer fear. And when we are no longer afraid, we can do.” I interrupted this to be the same idea. Apocalyptic lit is aiming to prepare society for something really bad to happen. People must get over fear and be able to take on what’s coming. Zombies have been more directed toward Americans really more than any other people. I think this is because we are blinder than any other nation to what happens to the helpless people around us and all over the world. Billions of other people around the world are ready for whatever is to come. They know what helplessness is to an extent that we can’t even imagine. I think there is a great disaster to hit the world very soon and the United States will be hit the hardest and this is why zombies have came about to try to get people to conquer fear and prepare for it. This is may very well be a financial disaster that can cause chaos and preparation indirectly is the best way to go otherwise chaos will start much earlier than it needs to if people are aware of what it is.
Today many popular shows, movies and even video games all circulate around the same theme; zombies. Many people either love the idea of zombies or they hate them. Personally I love horror movies, and the gruesome cliché zombie movies and shows are entertaining to watch. Every Sunday my family and I would watch our favorite show, The Walking Dead, never missing one episode. The article talks a lot about the movie World War Z, and without seeing it I still believe the article over analyzes the idea of zombies and their status. People watch zombie shows or play zombie video games because they like gruesome violence and the idea is intriguing and interesting. “Apocalyptic lit helps us conquer fear. And when we are no longer afraid, we can do. So zombie tales tell us what we have to do in the next bottleneck, no matter what form it takes or how bad it is.” I do not believe Apocalyptic lit helps us conquer fear because it is all fiction. For any reason if a disaster did happened similar to Apocalyptic lit, then maybe people would respond the same way they’ve seen through pop culture. Overall, I feel like people do not watch zombie movies or play video games to conquer their fear but because they believe it is entertaining and they like zombies.
I remember the first time I read World War Z. To be honest I hated the book and hardly payed attention to what was going on in the book. Zombies has been something that has been popular for a while. Even my old roommate was into the whole walking dead thing. I never got it I mean who cares about undead people walking around and turning more people into zombies. The article talks about why books like world war Z and TV shows are so popular. They give this idea of hope which is something that everyone wants. Something that stood out to me in the article is the fact that it talks about America always wanting to be the hero. If America isn't doing the saving then there is no salvation. This is something that does happen in world war Z and even in really life. America has to always be the last hope in everything and this just shows how true that statement is that even fiction work points that out.
This was quite the article about Zombies. The author, Michael Vlahos, apparently seems to like Zombies and believes them to be real. I say this because he believes that after we die humans can eventually go extinct or we can choose to become Zombies and achieve a “source of greatness” that we were not able to achieve in our human forms. Somehow I feel like all these Zombie believers just want to have a small glimmer of hope that once they die it won’t be the end of them, that eventually one day they could get revived as Zombies. Anyways, over the past couple years I have noticed many more people talking about Zombies and Zombie TV shows. Even one of my friend’s was really into that show called The Walking Dead and she told me to watch it one day. Since everyone was talking about it on basically every social media site I decided to watch as well. I tuned in right as all these Zombies were getting up and walking towards something that I will never know about because I turned off the TV after 30 seconds and never looked back. Needless to say, Zombies have never really been very interesting to me and I do not understand what all the hype is about with them.
Ever since the TV show The Walking Dead came on, zombies was the thing that everyone talks about. Some people even started to have a plan in their mind if a zombie apocalypse were to happen. Once in Miami there was this man who was ate a man’s face off and people thought that the zombie apocalypse was coming. There are video games that even display a situation if an apocalypse were to happen like Left 4 Dead, and movies such as I Am Legend and World War Z. I am not a fan of zombies because they are scary and gross looking. Most my friends would show me clips of The Walking Dead of zombies being sliced in half or stepped on and it grosses me out how they do it so life like. How do people even know zombies would look like that? I don’t know how people came up with zombies like that. The author of this article is really into talking about World War Z and how it brings people hope to be alive and how humans’ future is coming to an end. He seems to really believe in the zombie apocalypse since he said “zombies do matter.” The zombie apocalypse is only going to cause chaos to our society and everyone would be afraid to death.
It seems like zombies have their own reserved spot in American culture. Growing up, zombies never seemed like something that truly stuck out to me. Much like ramen noodles in a college kid’s dorm, they’re always just sitting there. I wanted to work ramen noodles somewhere in the response because I’m ‘enjoying’ some as I type. What I was trying to say was that because zombies are so common in our culture they have just blended in with everything else. Even after reading the article I am still surprised at how we have grappled onto the concept of zombs. Every storyline is so similar; infection breaks out, hero rises, headshots, headshots, headshots, society rebuilds, and end scene. I played Nazi zombies on Call of Duty a lot when I was younger. The idea that zombies could be easily killed by headshot carried over into the games and made them a lot more fun. I would be much more concerned about zombies if they were a real possibility. The media has blown up this zombie apocalypse scenario because people crave the ‘hope story’ as stated in the article. Personally, I would rather see our species die off from something other than a cliché zombie apocalypse.
I have a hard time relating to the zombie uprising in pop culture because I personally am not a big fan. I do know that many of my friends and family love the walking dead and I did subject myself to watching World War Z when it first came out. I didn’t exactly put it together until I read this article that the reason people may be so interested in the phenomenon of zombies is because of these internal, realistic fears we have of what may happen in the future. The article states, “pondering the zombie apocalypse is a form of shared emotional preparation – a collective therapy – for facing bad things to come” – I never thought of it this way. Scary things have happened in society that have put these fears to the test such as 9/11. I can understand that this zombie obsession may actually help people dig deeper internally and realize that in the midst of chaos and upheaval in society we have to be able to pull through and act in selfless and brave ways to overcome. I think it is scary no matter what when you start to think about scary things that could realistically happen to you. I don’t necessarily think zombies taking over the world is a realistic fear myself but I do think that it is these topics of death or of living in a society where there is total, utter chaos such as the movie “the purge” bring up frightening realities for people. It is when we start to think about these things that “it is our clearest window into our own dark side.” It is movies like World War Z that leave you with a sense of hope for humankind and the belief that no matter how bad things get, we could always find a way to pull through in the end.
I understand the point this article was trying to make but I disagree with most of the points the author was trying to make. I see how literature could offer us a window to our soul because it shows how deep down we all want to survive but I don’t think this is a theme unique to zombies or even worst case scenario movies. The other two points I couldn’t get behind as much because of the way we read our literature and the way we watch our movies. Not enough people walk into a movie and think about it critically enough for it to offer us much more than entertainment. I would see all of the author’s points but I think critical thought would be required so we could only truly appreciate it inside of an analysis class. Apart from that I don’t think zombies and most literature do not provide a majority of people with anything more than crude entertainment on any level.
When I first looked at the title and started to read this article I thought to myself what could the author possibly talk about zombies and pop culture? Then I saw World War Z and remember the time I went to watch the movie, no knowing anything from the title, I would have never guessed that it was a movie about zombies and was completely taken by surprise. I think that Vlahos did a great job in showing that TV shows about zombies like the Walking Dead and the movie World War Z, do a great job in showing how it is about conquering the fear and to stop being afraid of zombies. One of the best ways is in video games when you are seen as the hero when you have stopped the zombie apocalypse. It is about being prepared and that will allow us to conquer and defeat them. People may not see the creation of such movies, TV shows, and video games as Vlahos, but I think that the idea that Vlahos portrays is the underlying theme that the producers are trying to achieve. In most, if not all, zombie related things we see a hero or someone that is trying to conquer the zombies and that gives us a sense of preparation and allows us to get over the fear. While I see this idea as being true, it does not apply to everyone and may just be something to do or watch, because this is how I felt until reading this article. Now that I have read it I see the author’s point of view.
I don’t believe in the connection between pop culture and the zombie apocalypse. I believe that people play zombie games and watch zombie related shows for pure entertainment. This article discusses the fact that zombies are a way for zombie believers to organize chaos into meaning. These people transcend their issues in this way and according to the article, “help us conquer fear”. The article also discusses World War Z; about how it is a sign of giving up hope. The concept of World War Z could be considered as a preparation for these people to life after giving up. It is a weird concept, but in the eyes of the zombie apocalypse believers, they will be most prepared for the worst to come.
The phenomenon of zombies have existed for a long time. And I think I understand why. Our society is slowly killing itself (addiction to alcohol or cigarettes, usage of new, not well tested drugs, pollution of environment) and each of us realizes this at some points of his life. But majority is not making an effort to change something to stop the extinction of humanity. Because they got used to this lifestyle of consumption without thinking about the consequences. And this is where the zombies come to remind us the value of life. People often do not value things that they have been given since the beginning of their life. But once they lose it they realize the cost of every step that they were doing. Zombies is a tool that makes us feel the fear of losing the peace and comfort that we have right now. In the movie or a book they shake our minds and show the alternative scary reality, so we start thinking “Thanks God, it is not actually happening”. Or even worse, they show us our future, the future that we are creating for ourselves. I would not think about the zombies as only an entertaining monsters. I think they teach us a lot. In the book “The World War Z” the author went very deep in the problems of the society by revealing the corrupted government or people’s inability to accept the bitter truth. In decided that one day I will read this book.
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ReplyDeleteI have never really understood the prominence and popularity of zombies in pop culture. I haven’t watched many zombie movies, engaged in zombie video games, or read zombie literature, but I have friends who watch the Walking Dead religiously. On the surface, zombies appear as just a grotesque form of entertainment that can parallel war movies, yet, “As worst-case strategic analysis, it reveals the human future that is coming but we still cannot yet bear to face.” After reading this article it makes sense to me that the reason people are drawn to this phenomena is because the movies, video games and books associated with it demonstrate fears we have, and how to overcome them. “Apocalyptic lit helps us conquer fear. And when we are no longer afraid, we can do.” So Zombie apocalypses symbolize a loss of power and complete chaos as societies fall apart, and those who survive or are heroes typically possess characteristics we all wish to have: selflessness, empathy, the ability to cooperate and put the good of the whole above yourself. In a sense zombie films and all of its related trends desensitize society to the idea of an apocalypse, and the unpredicted chaos we all fear so much, as Vlahos says, “It is not the message here that counts but the taking onboard of the message--repeatedly--that actually preps us emotionally and intellectually.”
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When I first read Zombies, everything in the article doesn’t make sense to me. The way I analyzing Zombies is that the dead body brought back to the life by supernatural force. When I according to my logic to read through the article. I didn’t understand at all. What “zombie virus” is? What “zombie tale” is? And the “literature” keeps it live. In addition, I literally see a crushed wall with a lot of people. I am just so confused. The zombies’ tale is a fixed version of bottlenecks. The article says “the worst of these came 150,000 years ago at Pinnacle Point in South Africa. There, the last remnants of humanity, a few ragged bands of us, fought of extinction by climate change. We survived.” It sounds superhero to me. The last hope to save the human from climate change was the remnants of humanity. How did they fight for nature disaster, unless they had superpower to against nature? This idea is still continuing. Nowadays, When people met terrified like 9/11, WWII. People like to use “shock and Awe” method to solve what bad were happened. The real world doesn’t work that way. The reality is the reality. What happened was happened. You cannot use zombie stratagem to change the worst situation in the real life to become in a better ending. I think the movie or literature related to zombie’s tale like World war Z or walking death just make people hope and delightful. The zombie cultures are like fairy tale and only weren’t happening in the reality. The existing of zombie phenomenal only makes us feel better but nothing else.
When I first saw this title, I was like God help me because I hate Zombies. I couldn’t stop myself thinking about zombies. I just feel scared when I saw the picture of Zombies. Some friends recommended me to watch The Walking Dead. When I watched 1 episode of The Walking Dead, I couldn’t continue watching. It’s just gross and I had a nightmare about it. I dreamed that there were a bunch of Zombies with bloody bodies and huge teeth biting through my whole town. In the dream, I saw the neighborhood on the street being eaten by Zombies and some of them turned into a Zombie right away. There is one Zombie that found out I was watching the whole scene and they were walking toward my house. I was so scared and ran to hide in the bathroom. I was awake with rapid heartbeats. After reading this article, instead of reading the book, World War Z, I actually watched this movie with my friend. I finally understand the phenomenon about zombies. It is a scary world where everyone is on their own, trying to survive unless there is a way to stop the apocalypse.
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I’ve heard about zombies for lots of years now. Many people believe in them. Popular video games have also been made for zombies. They became more popular than any video game I have experienced and this helped the rise of this phenomena. I never really understood why the concept of zombies ever existed other than just a scary looking thing. It wasn’t until I watched the movie World War Z that I understood more behind why the concept of zombies exists. People with life threatening diseases weren’t attacked by the zombies because the zombies already knew that there was no point of going after them. People with an illness didn’t really fear the zombies because they already know what it feels like to actually be helpless. The people that weren’t ill, were scared of the zombies a lot more, but started to become more prepared for them and realize that running isn’t going to take them too far. The same situation is here in Vlahos article. As I read “Apocalyptic lit helps us conquer fear. And when we are no longer afraid, we can do.” I interrupted this to be the same idea. Apocalyptic lit is aiming to prepare society for something really bad to happen. People must get over fear and be able to take on what’s coming. Zombies have been more directed toward Americans really more than any other people. I think this is because we are blinder than any other nation to what happens to the helpless people around us and all over the world. Billions of other people around the world are ready for whatever is to come. They know what helplessness is to an extent that we can’t even imagine. I think there is a great disaster to hit the world very soon and the United States will be hit the hardest and this is why zombies have came about to try to get people to conquer fear and prepare for it. This is may very well be a financial disaster that can cause chaos and preparation indirectly is the best way to go otherwise chaos will start much earlier than it needs to if people are aware of what it is.
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ReplyDeleteToday many popular shows, movies and even video games all circulate around the same theme; zombies. Many people either love the idea of zombies or they hate them. Personally I love horror movies, and the gruesome cliché zombie movies and shows are entertaining to watch. Every Sunday my family and I would watch our favorite show, The Walking Dead, never missing one episode. The article talks a lot about the movie World War Z, and without seeing it I still believe the article over analyzes the idea of zombies and their status. People watch zombie shows or play zombie video games because they like gruesome violence and the idea is intriguing and interesting. “Apocalyptic lit helps us conquer fear. And when we are no longer afraid, we can do. So zombie tales tell us what we have to do in the next bottleneck, no matter what form it takes or how bad it is.” I do not believe Apocalyptic lit helps us conquer fear because it is all fiction. For any reason if a disaster did happened similar to Apocalyptic lit, then maybe people would respond the same way they’ve seen through pop culture. Overall, I feel like people do not watch zombie movies or play video games to conquer their fear but because they believe it is entertaining and they like zombies.
I remember the first time I read World War Z. To be honest I hated the book and hardly payed attention to what was going on in the book. Zombies has been something that has been popular for a while. Even my old roommate was into the whole walking dead thing. I never got it I mean who cares about undead people walking around and turning more people into zombies. The article talks about why books like world war Z and TV shows are so popular. They give this idea of hope which is something that everyone wants. Something that stood out to me in the article is the fact that it talks about America always wanting to be the hero. If America isn't doing the saving then there is no salvation. This is something that does happen in world war Z and even in really life. America has to always be the last hope in everything and this just shows how true that statement is that even fiction work points that out.
ReplyDeleteThis was quite the article about Zombies. The author, Michael Vlahos, apparently seems to like Zombies and believes them to be real. I say this because he believes that after we die humans can eventually go extinct or we can choose to become Zombies and achieve a “source of greatness” that we were not able to achieve in our human forms. Somehow I feel like all these Zombie believers just want to have a small glimmer of hope that once they die it won’t be the end of them, that eventually one day they could get revived as Zombies. Anyways, over the past couple years I have noticed many more people talking about Zombies and Zombie TV shows. Even one of my friend’s was really into that show called The Walking Dead and she told me to watch it one day. Since everyone was talking about it on basically every social media site I decided to watch as well. I tuned in right as all these Zombies were getting up and walking towards something that I will never know about because I turned off the TV after 30 seconds and never looked back. Needless to say, Zombies have never really been very interesting to me and I do not understand what all the hype is about with them.
ReplyDeleteEver since the TV show The Walking Dead came on, zombies was the thing that everyone talks about. Some people even started to have a plan in their mind if a zombie apocalypse were to happen. Once in Miami there was this man who was ate a man’s face off and people thought that the zombie apocalypse was coming. There are video games that even display a situation if an apocalypse were to happen like Left 4 Dead, and movies such as I Am Legend and World War Z. I am not a fan of zombies because they are scary and gross looking. Most my friends would show me clips of The Walking Dead of zombies being sliced in half or stepped on and it grosses me out how they do it so life like. How do people even know zombies would look like that? I don’t know how people came up with zombies like that. The author of this article is really into talking about World War Z and how it brings people hope to be alive and how humans’ future is coming to an end. He seems to really believe in the zombie apocalypse since he said “zombies do matter.” The zombie apocalypse is only going to cause chaos to our society and everyone would be afraid to death.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like zombies have their own reserved spot in American culture. Growing up, zombies never seemed like something that truly stuck out to me. Much like ramen noodles in a college kid’s dorm, they’re always just sitting there. I wanted to work ramen noodles somewhere in the response because I’m ‘enjoying’ some as I type. What I was trying to say was that because zombies are so common in our culture they have just blended in with everything else. Even after reading the article I am still surprised at how we have grappled onto the concept of zombs. Every storyline is so similar; infection breaks out, hero rises, headshots, headshots, headshots, society rebuilds, and end scene. I played Nazi zombies on Call of Duty a lot when I was younger. The idea that zombies could be easily killed by headshot carried over into the games and made them a lot more fun. I would be much more concerned about zombies if they were a real possibility. The media has blown up this zombie apocalypse scenario because people crave the ‘hope story’ as stated in the article. Personally, I would rather see our species die off from something other than a cliché zombie apocalypse.
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ReplyDeleteI have a hard time relating to the zombie uprising in pop culture because I personally am not a big fan. I do know that many of my friends and family love the walking dead and I did subject myself to watching World War Z when it first came out. I didn’t exactly put it together until I read this article that the reason people may be so interested in the phenomenon of zombies is because of these internal, realistic fears we have of what may happen in the future. The article states, “pondering the zombie apocalypse is a form of shared emotional preparation – a collective therapy – for facing bad things to come” – I never thought of it this way. Scary things have happened in society that have put these fears to the test such as 9/11. I can understand that this zombie obsession may actually help people dig deeper internally and realize that in the midst of chaos and upheaval in society we have to be able to pull through and act in selfless and brave ways to overcome. I think it is scary no matter what when you start to think about scary things that could realistically happen to you. I don’t necessarily think zombies taking over the world is a realistic fear myself but I do think that it is these topics of death or of living in a society where there is total, utter chaos such as the movie “the purge” bring up frightening realities for people. It is when we start to think about these things that “it is our clearest window into our own dark side.” It is movies like World War Z that leave you with a sense of hope for humankind and the belief that no matter how bad things get, we could always find a way to pull through in the end.
I understand the point this article was trying to make but I disagree with most of the points the author was trying to make. I see how literature could offer us a window to our soul because it shows how deep down we all want to survive but I don’t think this is a theme unique to zombies or even worst case scenario movies. The other two points I couldn’t get behind as much because of the way we read our literature and the way we watch our movies. Not enough people walk into a movie and think about it critically enough for it to offer us much more than entertainment. I would see all of the author’s points but I think critical thought would be required so we could only truly appreciate it inside of an analysis class. Apart from that I don’t think zombies and most literature do not provide a majority of people with anything more than crude entertainment on any level.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first looked at the title and started to read this article I thought to myself what could the author possibly talk about zombies and pop culture? Then I saw World War Z and remember the time I went to watch the movie, no knowing anything from the title, I would have never guessed that it was a movie about zombies and was completely taken by surprise. I think that Vlahos did a great job in showing that TV shows about zombies like the Walking Dead and the movie World War Z, do a great job in showing how it is about conquering the fear and to stop being afraid of zombies. One of the best ways is in video games when you are seen as the hero when you have stopped the zombie apocalypse. It is about being prepared and that will allow us to conquer and defeat them. People may not see the creation of such movies, TV shows, and video games as Vlahos, but I think that the idea that Vlahos portrays is the underlying theme that the producers are trying to achieve. In most, if not all, zombie related things we see a hero or someone that is trying to conquer the zombies and that gives us a sense of preparation and allows us to get over the fear. While I see this idea as being true, it does not apply to everyone and may just be something to do or watch, because this is how I felt until reading this article. Now that I have read it I see the author’s point of view.
ReplyDeleteI don’t believe in the connection between pop culture and the zombie apocalypse. I believe that people play zombie games and watch zombie related shows for pure entertainment. This article discusses the fact that zombies are a way for zombie believers to organize chaos into meaning. These people transcend their issues in this way and according to the article, “help us conquer fear”. The article also discusses World War Z; about how it is a sign of giving up hope. The concept of World War Z could be considered as a preparation for these people to life after giving up. It is a weird concept, but in the eyes of the zombie apocalypse believers, they will be most prepared for the worst to come.
ReplyDeleteThe phenomenon of zombies have existed for a long time. And I think I understand why. Our society is slowly killing itself (addiction to alcohol or cigarettes, usage of new, not well tested drugs, pollution of environment) and each of us realizes this at some points of his life. But majority is not making an effort to change something to stop the extinction of humanity. Because they got used to this lifestyle of consumption without thinking about the consequences. And this is where the zombies come to remind us the value of life. People often do not value things that they have been given since the beginning of their life. But once they lose it they realize the cost of every step that they were doing. Zombies is a tool that makes us feel the fear of losing the peace and comfort that we have right now. In the movie or a book they shake our minds and show the alternative scary reality, so we start thinking “Thanks God, it is not actually happening”. Or even worse, they show us our future, the future that we are creating for ourselves. I would not think about the zombies as only an entertaining monsters. I think they teach us a lot. In the book “The World War Z” the author went very deep in the problems of the society by revealing the corrupted government or people’s inability to accept the bitter truth. In decided that one day I will read this book.
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