Chuck Klosterman My Zombies Yourself Analysis

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We are in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Every time we hit “retweet,” a bullet is shot through a zombie’s head. Each email we delete is another zombie down. Finishing last night’s haul of homework is surviving a whole mob of zombies. This is the picture that Chuck Klosterman paints in his article published in The New York Times, “My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead.” Having published many books and essays concerning pop culture, Klosterman attempts to uncover the reason why zombies are so popular right now. He concludes that their popularity is a result of the current zombie-like state of our society. Killing zombies is repetitive, and it is no different from the monotonous tasks we engage in every day. Although Klosterman’s claim that zombies are popular because they are relatable is an interesting view, he does not bother to consider a more optimistic perspective: that zombies are popular because they are unrelatable. In his article, Klosterman makes a …show more content…

Klosterman, does in fact, attempt to respond to a counterargument, mentioning the vampire craze that was brought about from the Twilight franchise. However, instead of using it to consider other views, Klosterman uses it to dismiss any other perspective. He emphasizes that the reason why vampires are popular is completely different from the reason why zombies are popular. In his article, Klosterman says, “Vampire love can be singular. Zombie love, however, is always communal.” He mentions that it is possible for people to like vampires as individuals because they have the ability to be multidimensional characters. Zombies, on the other hand, do not possess the ability. Klosterman continues to say, “If you dig zombies, you dig the entire zombie concept,” and he does not even attempt to bother with finding any similarities between the

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