My fantastically fascinating essay about zombies in modern pop culture continues, trying to find out why we think zombies are so rockin' awesome. Parts
I and
II looked at political parallels between us and zombies, while
part III looked at the links between the administrative industry and zombiehood. None of these aforementioned theories about the prevalence of zombies are my original ideas, but I do have some speculation of my own about the origins of our collective zombiephilia.
This is my interpretation: Part of the reason we like zombies so much is that, as portrayed in modern pop media, they are extreme vampires. They are perfectly modern monsters in that they threaten humans at the essential seat of their humanity -- the brain -- thus updating the cannibalistic implications of the vampire for our current scientific state of knowledge.
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