How Modern Life Is Like a Zombie Onslaught - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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When we think critically about monsters, we tend to classify them as personifications of what we fear
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cryschan on 09 Apr 13This is true because sometimes people describe monsters as something that scares them, making there no 'one type' of monster. The monster that we fear of is always the one that is created and imagined by our own fears.
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depictions of their unconscious fears
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more attracted to allegories of how their day-to-day existence
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Every zombie war is a war of attrition
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I agree with this paragraph because it is true. There's always just one motive in a zombie movie, and that's to survive and kill the zombies. In real life, once you have a job, your only motive is to survive and earn enough money for yourself. It's just an endless and boring cycle where people start to lose themselves and just go into 'zombie-mode' and just do everything repetitively everyday.
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It’s hard not to think ‘death drive’ every time I go on the Internet,” she writes. “Opening Safari is an actively destructive decision. I am asking that consciousness be taken away from me.
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. Zombies are like the Internet and the media and every conversation we don’t want to have.
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enemy is relentless and colossal, but also uncreative and stupid.
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nostalgia for teenage chastity,
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contemporary fiction consumers tend to prefer long serialized novels that can be read rapidly.
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Zombie love, however, is always communal. If you dig zombies, you dig the entire zombie concept. It’s never personal.
