Merf. Thinking is Hard.![leabecca:
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Zombie intellectuals!
[Image: Four zombies sitting at a table.
Zombie #1 is male-appearing, has a purple suit with tie, holding a glass of red wine: “I’ve always thought of zombies as representing a pervasive American xenophobia.”
Zombie #2 is female-appearing, wears a faded salmon-pink dress, and holding a class of white wine: “Really? I’ve always considered us a metaphor for runaway consumerism.”
Zombie #3 is male-appearing, bespectacled, wearing a blue suit with a bowtie, with red wine: “There’s something to the idea that we illustrate the tenuous line between civilization and barbarism!”
Zombie #4 is male-appearing, wearing a teal sweater, staring forlornly at a plate in front of him with a brain on it, and a thought bubble above his head: “I feel really stupid for ordering brains now…”]
‘Or the cultural appropriation of voudoun concepts to illustrate the existential worries of westernised standards of living!’ I’d be a really annoying zombie, if I were at that dinner party, I think.
As good a time as any to announce that I won’t be going for this year’s D&D. (That’s dinner-and-dance to you gamers.) Because typically the seating plan is full of brains-eaters and not enough philosophical zombies! *grin*
When I first discovered the voudoun aspects of zombie tropes, I remember being surprised, because I remember somewhere that the zombie myth came about from stories of people being buried alive in times of plagues and stuff. And they would wake up and scramble out of the mass graves, and you know… not a pleasant sight in general. So I thought zombies were representative of a fear of the grave and the resultant scrambling to escape it (and take revenge on the living for putting them there). (It could also be that I was confusing that with vampire myth origins though.)](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lna6n0bLWu1qaz8q8o1_400.jpg)
Zombie intellectuals!
[Image: Four zombies sitting at a table.
Zombie #1 is male-appearing, has a purple suit with tie, holding a glass of red wine: “I’ve always thought of zombies as representing a pervasive American xenophobia.”
Zombie #2 is female-appearing, wears a faded salmon-pink dress, and holding a class of white wine: “Really? I’ve always considered us a metaphor for runaway consumerism.”
Zombie #3 is male-appearing, bespectacled, wearing a blue suit with a bowtie, with red wine: “There’s something to the idea that we illustrate the tenuous line between civilization and barbarism!”
Zombie #4 is male-appearing, wearing a teal sweater, staring forlornly at a plate in front of him with a brain on it, and a thought bubble above his head: “I feel really stupid for ordering brains now…”]
‘Or the cultural appropriation of voudoun concepts to illustrate the existential worries of westernised standards of living!’ I’d be a really annoying zombie, if I were at that dinner party, I think.
As good a time as any to announce that I won’t be going for this year’s D&D. (That’s dinner-and-dance to you gamers.) Because typically the seating plan is full of brains-eaters and not enough philosophical zombies! *grin*
When I first discovered the voudoun aspects of zombie tropes, I remember being surprised, because I remember somewhere that the zombie myth came about from stories of people being buried alive in times of plagues and stuff. And they would wake up and scramble out of the mass graves, and you know… not a pleasant sight in general. So I thought zombies were representative of a fear of the grave and the resultant scrambling to escape it (and take revenge on the living for putting them there). (It could also be that I was confusing that with vampire myth origins though.)
