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As somebody who lives in the Eastern hemisphere, I've never understood the apparent zombie obsession of the West. I understand that in video games and movies w
by captain_mars 15y ago
As somebody who lives in the Eastern hemisphere, I've never understood the apparent zombie obsession of the West.
I understand that in video games and movies we need "bad guys" whom we won't feel bad killing. And for that, zombies and merciless aliens (the UFO kind) are ideal. But making an actual house based on the premise of a zombie apocalypse?! That's serious.
- asciilifeform 15y ago> As somebody who lives in the Eastern hemisphere, I've never understood the apparent zombie obsession of the West. Sadly, it is more than an in-joke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King_riots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King_riots
- captain_mars 15y agoThanks for the context. After reading that article, I took a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots_in_popular_culture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots_in_popul... The riots really do seem to have had a significant cultural effect.
- sethg 15y agoEverything in Wikipedia has “a significant cultural effect”, because just about any fool can put down the TV remote long enough to add an item to the “In Popular Culture” section of a Wikipedia article. The riots were a big deal when they happened, but I don’t think they really explain why zombies are popular twenty years later.
- bhickey 15y agoZombie films are rarely about zombies, they're about us. The humans become zombie feed because they are incapable of working together, even when faced with unfeeling, unwavering brain eating machines. George Romero beats this one over the head in his latest film, where is set in the midst of a blood feud.
- artmageddon 15y agoIt's also worth pointing out how, even when humans work together, a single bad decision can make even the most elaborate plans fall apart. There's always one person who has to deviate from the group only to become feed, or in the case of 28 Weeks Later[1], giving a janitor access to the most restricted areas of a military base brings about the second wave of infection. [1] Yes, technically they weren't "zombies" but that's not what's being debated :)
- marknutter 15y agoIt's not so much an obsession with zombies as it is an obsession with post apocalyptic scenarios.
- sethg 15y agoI followed the link given elsethread the original homedsgn.com article, which says that this house was built on the outskirts of Warsaw. Perhaps the owners are concerned that in the future, a large number of working-class Poles will have second thoughts about that whole capitalism thing. Or maybe they travel a lot, and they want to feel assured that nobody will rob or vandalize them while they are away.