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The zombie obsession seems like a combination of several things:
1) A deep-seated anxiety in the population about the spiritual zombification people, which manifests symbolically in actual zombies depicted in movies and TV shows. From a Christian perspective I would say it’s a collective subconscious response to the rise of the anti-christ force in the human population. From a secular conspiratorial view, it’s simply the increasing depravity, stupidity, and programming of the gullible portion of the population. Anyone with spirit/soul can sense that others around them are in a downward spiral, going further and further from what it means to be human. Hence, becoming non-human, the walking dead. It’s worth mentioning that in dreams, dreaming of zombies represents attacks by people who can’t think for themselves; they have no brains, and want to take away your mind (eat your brain).
2) A deep-seated anxiety in the population about the imminent collapse of civilization and the shift toward survivalism. They can sense the floor is about to drop away. This anxiety is manifesting in many ways. Not only from the growing prepper movement, but even something as simple as the rise of SUVs ever since the turn of the millennium. People want to own something rugged because they are scared and insecure. Like animals reacting prior to an Earthquake. Well, the whole survivalism and prepper movement can be expressed in a socially acceptable way if the fear is made of zombies. Hence that stupid Zombie Squad culture where people are buying real militarized vehicles and guns with live ammo “just for fun, in anticipation of a fictional zombie apocalypse.” They’re doing exactly what the militia groups are doing, but since it’s against zombies somehow it’s cool and acceptable. But the event they are fearing doesn’t have to be zombies.
As to whether an actual literal zombie apocalypse could happen, I’d say the chances of that are slim. One possibility is that odd solar EM, or weakening of Earth’s magnetic field, or who knows what else, causes mass insanity and psychosis in people who can’t handle it. Those microbiologists who were killed over the past decade under mysterious circumstances, I looked into what their specialties were and putting it all together it looks like the shadow government is engineering a DNA-specific pathogen that can induce mad-cow type symptoms, in effect giving dementia to enemies and rendering them easier to round up. Either way, if there is an epidemic of dementia or psychosis, they wouldn’t be corpses crawling out of the ground, but rather given enough starvation can turn into desperate psychos preying on the weak in a post-collapse situation. That’s the closest I can foresee us ever getting to a zombie apocalypse.
But overall though, I’d say it’s primarily a socially acceptable “fun” way for people to prepare for something they may not consciously realize is actually coming (a breakdown of civilization), and is always a way for the government and military to indoctrinate people into that mindset, and teach them survivalist skills to make it through. Hence even Spielberg’s show “Falling Skies” about an alien invasion; it’s just prepper porn for the most part, and teaches the audience how to forage for food and medicine, set up camp, go on military strikes, etc. This goes hand in hand with the military abduction (MILABs) projects that aim to create an army of sleeper agents that can survive a collapse situation and I guess fight whomever these military programmers think are the enemy. Evidently black ops (and aliens) know what’s coming, and they’re programming people directly and through media to react a certain way to whatever’s coming.
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