Well another perspective commonly undertaken when the requirement of analyzing our society in a world of 'zombies' arises happens to be well, actual zombies like those depicted by our all time favorite Resident Evil!
I had some Eureka moment when I caught the sequel Resident Evil: Retribution, last week on HBO. Whilst licking Nutella and peanut butter straight out from their jars and coupling them with walnuts, I saw how the creative directors of the show placed Alice (Milla Jovovich), the protagonist clad in a tight leather suit with fabulous heels to match (satirically deemed as an S&M outfit by another female character in the show), in an environment where the 'Red Queen' a computerized villain arranged a mass lock down and an entire plan to hunt her down. It was intriguing because you never thought zombie personnel could be so...well technologically advanced.
Remember in the old days when we thought they would just rise from graveyards and scare the hell out of citizens walking on the streets? Well as Google advances with Facebook, apparently so does their population.
With reference to the 'Red Queen' villain in the show, it kinda got me thinking, what if our world really does end up in a situation, except that our 'Red Queen' happens to be our communist/dictator/fascist government leaders? I mean, if you don't subscribe to any of their 'prized philosophies', then you become an 'Alice' and will be hunted down by various massacre trails. What if sovereign funds, funds that you actually contribute to via essential taxes and other forms of COMPULSORY SAVINGS, are actually covertly invested in some form of software that will build an entire faculty of 'Red Queens'?
Is it at all conceivable that we are digging our own graves simply by doing so? I'd imagine...a world, when plagued with issues like food shortages and natural disasters, when resources fall to an all time low, that the remaining sane number of us (probably a very low level) will have to, like how Alice's team of alliances, stick together as one last fighting unit to confer resistance to an evil that appears somehow unstoppable. It is when our human instincts of support in times of extreme scarcity come in most handy. It is when, like Alice, we have to believe that it is still possible to save a life when the timer is totally not in your favor.
Would you have such a tenacity in times of need? .
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