The One Percenter Code by Dave Nichols

Author:Dave Nichols
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MBI
Published: 2012-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

THE UNDEAD

In fact, the reason that zombie movies have become so popular may have to do with the fact that we are all just a step away from becoming soulless, undead things that feed off the living. That’s what consumers do, right? Maybe that’s why George Romero had his zombies hang out at the mall in Dawn of the Dead, a place they had happy memories of, or maybe shopping is in our very DNA. The social commentary in zombie movies is clear, whether the reanimation of corpses is a mystery or a harbinger of the end days as in George Romero’s films, or the undead are created by a plague virus in films like I Am Legend, 28 Days, or the five Resident Evil movies; it’s obvious that we are the zombies. These films are telling us that the concept of manifest destiny is wrong and that you can’t just keep expanding unchecked for eternity. Eventually, something is gonna pop, and that’s where we find ourselves right now.

As mentioned in Chapter Two, the powers that be in America decided to ramp up the economy after World War II, creating a massive advertising campaign spewed into our brains nonstop by the media (radio, TV, and newspapers), and, sure enough, turned us all into zombies looking for a brighter smile and a smarter smart phone. As the police chief said in Night of the Living Dead, “You kill the brain, you kill the ghoul.” Apparently, only killing the brain will stop the influx of advertising messages.

We define ourselves by the stuff we have, which in turn is determined by how much we earn, which is determined by what we do for a living. That’s why the first thing people ask each other when they initially meet is “What do you do for a living?”

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