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This seems rather made up. In the last years there was also a rise in vampire and zombie literature, but that doesn't mean that a zombie apocalypse is becoming
by italophil 12y ago
This seems rather made up. In the last years there was also a rise in vampire and zombie literature, but that doesn't mean that a zombie apocalypse is becoming more likely.
- zikzak 12y agoI always thought the popularity of Twilight was a good second order approximation of the growing zombie population...
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoVampire fiction got big in the 80s, at a time when lots of people were worried about a certain blood-related disease.
- jsprogrammer 12y agoI've been tending to view zombie works as metaphors for 'mindlessness'. That is, herd behavior, just following the crowd, etc. Sometimes it does seem like there is a high risk of that happening. Other times it seems like we are already living in that world. A world where large groups of people can be worked up into a frenzy and convinced to support, defend, and propagate horrible actions provoked by minimal or non-existent facts and evidence.