Apparently, I left a few headstones unturned in my exhumation of the deeper meanings of the Zombie meme.
Live, now, on True/Slant: Dead Metaphors: What Do Zombies Mean?, Part 2.
Quote: “In the aftermath of econopocalypse, when the needle of ideological polarization is far into the red, the zombie is rising again to put a mythic face on our fears of social disintegration. In Obama’s America, it’s kulturkampf all the time.”
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