I’m watching AMC’s Walking Dead at the moment.. slow moving zombies are so not a threat to humanity.. the industrious members of society would upgrade ancient technology – castles – and wipe them out in short order. I don’t think zombies are going to be building trebuchets to take down the walls.
In TWD, it is not the zombies that are dangerous but the people.
Remember all those “evil baby” movies of the late 1960s and early 1970s? The ones where Mia Farrow or Gregory Peck had to kill his or her own child because the little bugger was the Antichrist or whatever? It’s no coincidence that those flicks became popular at the same time that the sexual “liberation” of the ’60s created an open demand for legal abortion in America. Rosemary’s Baby and The Omen were America telling itself (subconsciously) that it’s okay to kill your own baby if he or she becomes a threat (to your lifestyle).
I think the ongoing obsession with zombies in the entertainment media is something similar. I think it represents white America subconsciously preparing itself for The Day the EBT Card Stops Working and the failures of the civil rights movement/Great Society era can no longer be ignored. Fantastic mobs of rampaging, unreasoning, flesh-hungry zombies are an acceptable substitute for the all-too-real mobs of “teens”, “youths”, and “young people” that liberal white people cannot bring themselves to openly recognize as a threat.
Oh great. So what you’re saying is rekilling the dead will be against civil rights laws?
I’m going with armored car and robotic flamethrower turret. I think mobility is important.
Romero has written on the symbolism of zombies.. they’ve always represented the communist masses. The recent remakes are outright transparent in their symbolism and Romero has made no secret of it in any case. See http://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Living-Dead-Romeros-Visions/dp/1932792651
But if Zombies were communists, wouldn’t they expect to stand in a queue outside your door for 12-hours before being let in and told that you’re house is all out of brains for today?
To paraphrase the old joke: Think yourself lucky, I hear that in the capitalist countries they don’t even provide brains for the people.
I’m watching AMC’s Walking Dead at the moment.. slow moving zombies are so not a threat to humanity.. the industrious members of society would upgrade ancient technology – castles – and wipe them out in short order. I don’t think zombies are going to be building trebuchets to take down the walls.
In TWD, it is not the zombies that are dangerous but the people.
Remember all those “evil baby” movies of the late 1960s and early 1970s? The ones where Mia Farrow or Gregory Peck had to kill his or her own child because the little bugger was the Antichrist or whatever? It’s no coincidence that those flicks became popular at the same time that the sexual “liberation” of the ’60s created an open demand for legal abortion in America. Rosemary’s Baby and The Omen were America telling itself (subconsciously) that it’s okay to kill your own baby if he or she becomes a threat (to your lifestyle).
I think the ongoing obsession with zombies in the entertainment media is something similar. I think it represents white America subconsciously preparing itself for The Day the EBT Card Stops Working and the failures of the civil rights movement/Great Society era can no longer be ignored. Fantastic mobs of rampaging, unreasoning, flesh-hungry zombies are an acceptable substitute for the all-too-real mobs of “teens”, “youths”, and “young people” that liberal white people cannot bring themselves to openly recognize as a threat.
Oh great. So what you’re saying is rekilling the dead will be against civil rights laws?
I’m going with armored car and robotic flamethrower turret. I think mobility is important.
Romero has written on the symbolism of zombies.. they’ve always represented the communist masses. The recent remakes are outright transparent in their symbolism and Romero has made no secret of it in any case. See http://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Living-Dead-Romeros-Visions/dp/1932792651
But if Zombies were communists, wouldn’t they expect to stand in a queue outside your door for 12-hours before being let in and told that you’re house is all out of brains for today?
To paraphrase the old joke: Think yourself lucky, I hear that in the capitalist countries they don’t even provide brains for the people.
🙂
We’d be remise not to mention Zombies in Space! on this forum.
I liked 2, 4, and 8. Many of the houses have trees running right up to the house, which makes them very difficult to defend.
I’m surprised that some of the designs assume water helps somehow. What, they never saw the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie?
None of these pictures are of ISS. Or Bigelow habitats.
Inflatable space technology as the last redoubt against the zombie apocalypse is so five years ago…
http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070612
http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070613
http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070614
The latter also offers an alternative safe haven, for people who think there might be some things even more awe-inspiring than inflatable spaceships.
Sent the listing over to the wife, with this note:
Gee, is this in our price range?
Safe, secure, spacious. 19 acres!
Perfect safety from zombies, too, I’ll bet.
I got a one-line reply, and it’s safe for work, too! …
But it doesn’t have a pool!
Guess I need to teach her a little about how many creeks we might find on 20 acres of woodland.