(Uh...Yeah...that's the two choices I'd make sure I'd blog on, Mr. MormonMystic....do ya want to be a vampire...or rather a zombie...And, of course...in keeping with the Twilight series written by a fellow Mormon...you chose Vampire!)
All: See: Mormon Vampires in the Garden of Eden [The OTHER WORLD series] for Mormon theological/cultural parallels in The Twilight series.
I’m not fascinated by zombie stories... but I’m going to read this later.
It occurred to me the show is a great metaphor for our country. On one side you have perfect uniformity of outcomes and no responsibility. On the other you have individual responsibility and immediate consequence for failure.
Studying zombies helps us better understand Obama’s supporters.
What I like about Zombie’s and Vampire’s is you are free to kill them, and as far as imagery they are most closely related to life blood sucking, totally confused, corrupt, and only a sliver of brain matter democrats.
Our monster’s are a metaphor for the society’s current anxiety. As anxieties change, the monsters change.
Worry about those around you pulling you apart and devouring you is an apt metaphor for our current state of government.
“Why do zombies, of all things, capture our imagination so?”
Quite simply because the zombie is the perfect metaphor for modern Man; it does nothing, makes mo contribution to society, doesn’y think, follows the herd, and takes a bite out of whatever you’ve got, leaving you ill and diminished.
But, hey, it’s all for the Marxist collective.
In short, it’s Twenty-first century society writ large.