• PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Slavoj Zizek wrote that zombie stories like WWZ and the Living Dead movies are popular is because it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. People have so absorbed Thatcher’s “There is no alternative” that the only alternative we can picture is the literal destruction of society itself.