used to give a damn, but never gave a fuck

Zombies as grief

Zombies as consumerism

Zombies as forced conformity

Zombies as loss of identity

Zombies as inevitable change

Zombies as post-humanity

The apocalypse bringing out the best in some, yielding kindness in the face of futility, showing that hope is always worth clinging to and that fighting on is hope in itself even if you fail, to enjoy the little things moment to moment

The apocalypse revealing the ways we can become the monster we fear in the context of a changed world that never belonged to us

Zombies as cold brutality, showing that malice and intent isn't a prerequisite to violence and cruelty

Zombies as a vessel to prove that selfishness and obsession with dominance and control lead to one's undoing

Zombies as a vessel to prove that cooperation and adaptation is our defining trait, that the way to survive in a seemingly hopeless situation is to depend on one another and to hold on to humanity

Zombies provoking mercy, self sacrifice and unshakable compassion with no reward

Thinking about what these things mean in the COVID era