The Living Dead

Why are zombies so compelling? And not compelling only to me; they have earned a central place in popular culture. 

And if they are so compelling, where were they in the past? Our modern conception of zombies dates only from Night of the Living Dead, 1968.

I think everyone half-understands what the zombies represent. We knew in the 60s. They represent the growing postwar trend to godless materialism. To reject God and the absolute—truth, beauty, and the good—is to lose one’s soul. One is just a walking carcass.

The zombies are antifa, the postmodernists, the critical theorists, the Nazis—see Ionescu’s 1959 play Rhinoceros. All these mass movements that rely on aggressively enforced shared delusions.

And they are coming to get you.