You are looking through such a small lense at this story. It’s also about what causes their losses (brainless people who seemingly only exist to hate the “real people”) and how that hatred stands central to the losses. It’s about creating walled off spaces and the dangers of leaving your “safe zones.” It’s feel-good fascism replacing the oppressed and expropriated group with zombies to make it more palatable. It’s settler colonialism apologia.
We think it’s about “complex people” because we’re so used to the settler colonist as a hero that even one who makes worse decisions (killing a doctor for no reason) is “complex” instead of a terrible, nihilistic person doing something even worse than their ordinary.
Of course, in the world where zombies exist for real, it’s not real “settler colonialism” to save that land. But fiction isnt ever just fiction
That’s an apt description of it. It wants you to just accept what it has to say about humanity, which is incredibly nihilistic and misanthropic, by creating strawmen that don’t actually exist. Seeing what the author has to say about Palestinians tells you everything you need to know.
You are looking through such a small lense at this story. It’s also about what causes their losses (brainless people who seemingly only exist to hate the “real people”) and how that hatred stands central to the losses. It’s about creating walled off spaces and the dangers of leaving your “safe zones.” It’s feel-good fascism replacing the oppressed and expropriated group with zombies to make it more palatable. It’s settler colonialism apologia.
We think it’s about “complex people” because we’re so used to the settler colonist as a hero that even one who makes worse decisions (killing a doctor for no reason) is “complex” instead of a terrible, nihilistic person doing something even worse than their ordinary.
Of course, in the world where zombies exist for real, it’s not real “settler colonialism” to save that land. But fiction isnt ever just fiction
That’s an apt description of it. It wants you to just accept what it has to say about humanity, which is incredibly nihilistic and misanthropic, by creating strawmen that don’t actually exist. Seeing what the author has to say about Palestinians tells you everything you need to know.