Stay alive, no matter what occurs, Non will come for you...

[Professor]

Which begs the question - what turns people into zombies? If it's personal contact, then being rural will help, as you'll be less likely to encounter zombies before you can take defensive measures.

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[The Dharma Bum]

no lol, while rugged individual is definitely an important component in this it is because it serves to drive the anxiety about being absorbed into a faceless mass society, one where human behavior is reduced to mechanized consumption without regard to personal identity or emotional feeling

that's the fear

[eynon81]

[John Galt]

it does depend on the type of thing that it is

the 'zombies' in The Last of Us are not zombies at all, not really (that's a magnificent game by the way). they are not undead, they are very much alive. it was spread through several ways, including being airborne, and was modeled after real life types of fungus that does the same thing to inscets, for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordy ... ilateralis



In A World... where people emphasize shades of grey, zombies intrigue us because there is no reasoning with them, but it's total fantasy that undead will come back to try to eat ur brains. i always think it goes too far, it wouldn't go that far. someone somewhere would realize that zombies are made out of things that would burn and it would have been taken care of before the world moves on into some wasteland

[eynon81]

[The Comrade]

[The Dharma Bum]

In reality, they are part of a faceless mass society that engages in mechanized consumptive behavior, the subconscious realization that this is true manifests as anxiety.

The popularity of this trope shows this is a generalized mass anxiety.

[eynon81]