{"id":858,"date":"2014-10-29T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=858"},"modified":"2014-10-29T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:03:09","slug":"zombies-are-us-the-walking-dead-in-the-american-police-state-the-burning-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"Zombies Are Us: The Walking Dead in the American Police State \u00ab The Burning Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zombies Are Us: The Walking Dead in the American Police State \u00ab The Burning Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection. In the current crop of zombie stories, the prevailing value for the beleaguered survivors is a sort of siege mentality, a vigilance so constant and unremitting that it\u2019s indistinguishable from the purest paranoia.<\/em>\u2014\u00a0Terrence Rafferty,\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fear and paranoia have become hallmarks of the modern American experience, impacting how we as a nation view the world around us, how we as citizens view each other, and most of all how our government views us.<\/p>\n

Nowhere is this epidemic of fear and paranoia more aptly mirrored than in the culture\u2019s fascination with zombies, exacerbated by the hit\u00a0television series<\/a>\u00a0The Walking Dead<\/em>, in which a small group of Americans attempt to survive in a zombie-ridden, post-apocalyptic world where they\u2019re not only fighting off flesh-eating ghouls but cannibalistic humans.<\/p>\n

Zombies have experienced such a surge in popularity in recent years that you don\u2019t have to look very far anymore to find them lurking around every corner: wreaking havoc in movie blockbusters such as\u00a0World War Z<\/em>, running for their lives in 5K charity races, battling corsets in\u00a0Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em>, and even putting government agents through their paces in mock military drills arranged by the Dept. of Defense (DOD) and the Center for\u00a0Disease<\/a>\u00a0Control (CDC).<\/p>\n

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Zombies Are Us: The Walking Dead in the American Police State \u00ab The Burning Platform. Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection. In the current crop of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[119,635,903],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cdc","tag-police-state","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}