A Comparison Of Popular Culture In My Zombie, Myself

The World of The Living Dead

Monsters have overwhelmingly becoming such a huge obsession of popular culture because monsters such as zombies have become metaphors of our fears. Even though zombies oddly enough never evolve and have very little diversity they are becoming, “an ever-expanding market with no glass ceiling” (Klosterman 40). Zombies have infiltrated our societal structure, leaving the desire to depict our latent fears upon them. As I was reading “My Zombie, Myself” by Chuck Klosterman, it became very evident that as a society we have allowed zombies to encompass our way of living. I have personally been a part of this zombie obsession and through this text I have come to realization that zombies are not just for entertainment rather

We so desperately don’t want to waste time even though we live in a modern culture that is constantly on our phones instead of living in the moment. I feel like we are starting to look more and more like a zombie apocalypse because as we surf the web or check social media for the millionth time, we become tainted by the mindless zombie epidemic. This egocentric and media-centered mindset that we have adopted shields us from what is truly important. The obsession of constantly checking our phones or binge watching TV shows doesn’t seem like a big deal. But as we do the exact same activities every single day, we can easily be compared to zombies as we begin to do things without thinking. I don’t really agree with Klosterman about zombies being obstacles and having to kill them but I do feel that through social media we are turning into zombies because it is not only consuming our time but our existence. No matter how hard we try to get rid of our repetitive and mindless habits they will never go away, leaving us to fight the battle of being human with a purpose in this zombie filled world. The monster always gets away and although it “can be dispersed temporarily, but the revenant by definition returns” (Cohen 5). We unknowingly are on a mind-numbing repetitive cycle that revolves around social media and what is considered to be important. In continuing our thoughtless actions, we live out our biggest fear of being consumed which leaves us with no true purpose. We are connected to zombies through the personifications we give them to illustrate societal emotion. Being that monsters are based off our hidden fears, zombies represent us becoming creatures whose whole existence is meaningless. Our thoughtless routine will not stop until it consumes us. Society’s greatest fear is becoming infected and being overtaken. Our only hope is to one day