Why I Find Zombies Fascinating:
I believe that zombies and the undead, as most monsters do, represent fears that all humans that have ever lived have had. I going a little off track here but just stick with me. I read an article that took monsters and analyzed the fears that were behind them. Take IT for example. No, it doesn't deal with the fear of clowns. It deals with the fear of *****. Pre-teens running around trying to avoid some guy that, except for the teeth, looks really nice. No adults believe them. They get tortured for the rest of their lives by it. So then, lets look at zombies and how the things they do really make us scared, or fascinates us.
1. Their freaking dead. They have no heart beat. They rot. But they move and want to eat you. It's completely against what should happen in nature. This reaches deeper into the human psyche because we have been raised since birth to know that when something is dead it doesn't move and certainly doesn't try to eat people. Its not normal and its never been documented. So if it did happen, it would be a shock to what every human excepts as normal.
2. Fear of loved ones. This might be disagreed with, but has anyone ever considered what it would be like to be murdered or hurt by someone you love? Not emotionally but physically? That would be some scary s**t right? Since a zombie doesn't remember their loved ones and only wants to devour them, it takes it to a whole new level. Not only that but, this also includes having to hurt your loved ones. If your father or mother turned and you had to kill them, would you hesitate at all? Most would say that they aren't afraid to take down an infected loved one, and it should be done, but imagine yourself standing in your living room, a gun pointed at your zombiefied wife or girlfriend or mom or pop and you had to pull the trigger. All your memories of their living self would flash though your mind as you shot them. Would you regret it?
3. Cannibals. The zombies eat human flesh, even if they aren't technically human any more, they once were. Imagine that you were ripping open the abdomen of a fellow human being, pulling that persons intestines out and eating them right in front of the screaming victim. Makes you feel a little bad right? "That's not a good idea" you might think. Humans are hard wired to not eat other people. Kill them yes, but then we bury them. Only under extreme circumstances ( the Donner party is one famous example ) or extreme cultures ( a few native American cultures, Aztecs ) will a person consider eating the flesh of another human being. Oh... forgot to mention those crazy ******** like Jeffery Dahmur and others.
4. Revolutions. Every once in awhile, a society will under go a massive and usually violent change in the way it works. America has been around for almost three hundred years and its starting to get a little boring around here. I believe that a zombie invasion would be the greatest of Revolutions. After all, the American and French Revolutions didn't have any zombies and look how crazy things got!!!!!
5. Their numbers. Anyone ever seen the Alfred Hichcock classic "Birds"? Of course you have!!!! One bird attacking you isn't very scary and pretty easy to take care of. A whole flock... that's another story. One zombie isn't really that scary... but five or ten are, let alone a hundred or a thousand. Its their numbers that probably scare me the most. Even if you have a gun, it can't kill a hundred zombies charging or shambling towards you.
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