it's an odd canon overall, like you get a lot of right wing colonizers to the genre that want an outlet for their misanthropy while its most creative and interesting voices tend to be more lefty
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I actually don't know if it's that simple. Right wing Romero misanthropy is still fundamentally right wing in that it views humanity and human expression as a pathetic source of weakness and contagion, which will inevitably lead to our downfall as we are punished by Cruel Reality
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If your work starts from "people suck and we are punished for our decadent hopes, dreams and gentleness by an uncaring world proving the only way for humanity to survive is strict callous control," I don't think it really matters if you blame a government or a corporation.
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see I don't think I really agree that's the thrust of his films, like not when you take Land of the Dead into account as the conclusion, they feel almost transhumanist? like in both Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead the zombies are very nearly the heroes...
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See I think that's nonsense. They are objectively a terrible thing that preys on innocents, rotting shambling horrors with limited or no real complex thought. Like, Romero is pulling some real authorial manipulation in Land.
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I still don't think I agree, I think the zombies becoming a self-aware species in their own right ties in to the idea that we're all 100% going to become one of the zombies as well, like it's some next step, especially as part of their evolution is moving away from flesh eating
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Rot.
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I mean I certainly note it's rich coming from me, Mr. Anti-vampire/Jedi/mutants, that zombies are the next stage of human existence
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No, I more just meant literally being a zombie is still objectively terrible! "Being a bunch of feral rotting corpses is superior to being humanity" is still DEEPLY misanthropic.
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Well they aren't feral in Land, like they can communicate with each other, they have goals above and beyond flesheating, they're a zombie community
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The hivemind/"next phase of evolution" thing was the whole point of Stephen King's Cell
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And, I guess, The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals
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But yeah Cell being about the idea that if you delete our human individuality there's room for a higher being to evolve from what's left of our brains and make better use of them
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