It wasn't long ago that the BBC had an article on their site about Zombies, and why we seem to love them. I'm an avid Left 4 Dead 2 player, and personally think it contends for the greatest game made ever (ever). But it's not just my fanatical fanboyish ways, there are myriads of films in various flavours about the apocolypse, even a plant induced apocalypse (Day of the Triffids). I also heard about a "Zombie experience" where one is locked in an abandoned shopping centre or creepy manor house and has to fight off hoards of zombies with airsoft guns. So we've gathered we love the idea of an apocalypse, Zombie or not. But why is it so enticing?
It's now more than ever, at the height of my A Levels, with the STEP papers casting a monstrous shadow over me I can understand why. Day to day we invest massive amounts of effort to achieve goals that appear useless. Our ultimate escape is to be rid of them, all worries and responsibilities. Everything we dislike about the way the world works would disappear "the system" as some extremely cool people like to say. It's a little in vain, an apocalypse would be a pain anyway. All those mindless people mooching about, would be a bit like the Internet...
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