gcj post making fun of this man
Americans have a deep-seated deranged longing to be in a situation where absolute brutality can be hypothetically justified. Self-defense violence fantasies continue to be unhinged. There’s a shitload of supportive comments in the AMA too.
Why do you think Zombies were uniquely popular in America and originating here?
A zombie is a back from the dead motherfucker
A soulless, crippled and meat eater folk craving for your fresh brain
Your finger is on the trigger, my friend Face to face
He mess you bad if you hesitate
Boom! Brains everywhere!
It's politically correct if you shoot a zombie in the face
Boom! Make it explode!
Relieve your working routine stress to the bloody bone
They used to be human
That's why we like them so much
We can go cannibal with no sense of shame!
We are no savage
We no pay
To see gladiators kill
We are more human than that
We are different
We shoot zombies in the face!
Shoot zombies in the face!
Zombies are slow, predictable, old-fashioned
We ain't scared or surprised watching them in action
A creative dead end
Why are they still a trend?
They're our ex-neighbour!
They're that fucking pretentious bitch and your stupid bully boss
They preserve your traits!
Semi-human so we can hate them as much as you can
They are all that we are afraid to be
Anti-human
Anti-human
We are justified
We have permission
We are licensed cannibals
By killing them, we declare
We are different
We are better
I fear, I hate, I need my green neighbor!
The more brutal you go
The more relieved you'll be
It's tolerated to go ape on them
They're filthy former human beings
We are no monsters
We no pay
To see gladiators kill
We are more human than that
We are different
We shoot zombies in the face!
Zombie movies are the white race's deep-seated fear of BIPOC. They will overwhelm us with sheer numbers, eat our brains, transform us into them (racial mixing), etc. Thus the great pleasure in finally getting to actually use our guns, and only headshots will do the job. The entire genre from George Romero to Sam Raimi is just white anxiety at a changing world which will not include them.
Specifically they are the subconscious fear of the property owner and small business owner. There’s a reason why the protagonist humans are always camped out at a location (mall, prison, farm, house, etc) and the zombies are always breaking in, breaking down the fences. We have to shoot these mindless non-humans, they are breaking into my property!!
A lot of survivalist/libertarian mindset as well, with the entire premise of everyone turning on each other once things get difficult instead of banding together - and the prepper instinct.
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Well Zombies are an inversion of the old horror archetypes of Dracula and aristocratic vampires. Used to be that what scared most people was the blood sucking old money capitalist in the manor on the hill, who follows strange arcane rules and has the ability to slaughter and exploit mortals. Most people were workers or peasants.
Now most people in the US are middle-class consumers completely absorbed into the cult of individuality. They see themselves as Dracula. They see the workers and peasants of the world as mindless and stupid livestock to exploit and slaughter. Their inside subconscious source of perspective and identity has swapped from one of the lowly masses terrorized by a powerful monster, to a powerful monster who terrorizes the lowly masses. Hence the glee you see when people discuss what they would do during a hypothetical zombie apocalypse and it's pop-culture power. No peasant or worker would have felt glee at the idea of a real life vampire apocalypse.
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In horror movies, monsters hunt humans. In zombie movies, humans hunt “monsters”.
At its core it’s a libidinal fantasy and power trip, an apocalypse of slow easy monsters tailored for an audience of slow incompetent viewers who want to imagine they would thrive while everyone else perishes. It’s contradictory and very dialectical tbh, zombies are an interesting trope
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Haiti
Those are not the same thing with the same tropes. They are not the mindless hordes who need to have their heads blown off and justify brutality
Being a zombie isn't so bad