CNN Backs Up "My" Theories

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/10/02/zombie.love/index.html

I have been encouraged by CNN (of all news sources) and their recent coverage of the world's zombie mania. In the article above, Doug Gross (I'm sure no pun intended) notes how we can use zombies as a means of acting out our emotions of anger, aggression, and fear (to say the least) when the more abstract pressures of the economy cannot be so easily punished for their wicked, wicked crimes.

The author even points out a lot of the "first" zombie stories originated during the Great Depression (Gross). How interesting? I certainly see the parallels. Again, these monsters are our coping mechanism in a world gone pretty much suck. We can maim, shoot, explode (or implode), light fire to, and pretty much abuse the crap out of a zombie but we cannot punch the market in it's stupid face because, well, it doesn't have one.

But what about you, long time undead lover? Did you find your thirst for the crawling, rotting zombie well before the soft whispers of the housing crash or the enacting of stimulus recovery? Why do you like the zombie so much if not for the traditional/popular reasons for grappling with these monsters? Perhaps you are less concerned with APRs, Fiscal stability, or our ever changing global landscape. Do you daydream incessantly about the living dead apocalypse for another, perhaps more sinister reason--one you won't quite admit to others ("No, no, John and Jane, I am just kidding. I don't really want the world to end in a burst of shredded flesh and rivers of blood. Please pass the taco dip?")

Maybe it is just fun, a brain game, a challenge like the rubix cube or something generated by Avalon Hill.

Perhaps more interesting, a little blend of dark and light, can it not be a bit of both? Or you do not necessarily want all of humanity to be at the mercy of sharp incisors and a never ending blood lust --but maybe you do not believe preparing for this to be utterly impractical. You've got one foot in the lifeboat when the iceberg comes to dance while the rest of us are still twirling on the gilded deck.

Honestly, I am not sure where I fall into the spectrum of Zombie Love Reasoning 101. I doubt I am enthusiastically counting the days until that fateful Dawn (you know what I mean). However, I certainly don't want to feel/be helpless should any danger burst from the shadows.

What do you want, Zombie fans? But, more importantly, why do you want it?