As everyone's entitled to their own fantasy zombie Apocalypse survival plan, everyone's entitled to a theory on why zombie Apocalypse fantasies are so popular, as well as scenarios as to how zombies exist in the first place. We'll deal with the psycho stuff first here.
- Fear of conformity. Zombies=ultimate conformity.
- Fear of outsiders. Zombies=ultimate outsiders.
- Fear of ourselves. There's a zombie in every one of us. Uncanny valley stuff, just enough like us be maddeningly terrifyingly wrong.
- Psychopathy. Relentlessly slaughtering everyone else is cathartic for us. We all want to kill, just, everyone. It's no fun to kill just one dude. You have to kill everyone else. Everyone who is not you. Sheep. That's why zombies make baaa noises.
- Distopianism as a genre- a world where the social contract is negated and it would actually be your obligation to break all the rules. Wish fulfillment on a grand scale.
- Fascination with the cult of death. I guess.
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