Why are Zombies Everywhere?
Zombies are everywhere in our culture, in movies and shows, and even in real life, on zombie walks. They’ve gone from being an object of horror to one of fascination, one that seems to reflect something back to us. In “Zombies in Western Culture,” zombies are analyzed as a myth of Western culture and a symbol of the meaning crisis. In this episode, we discuss chapter one, where Vervaeke and his coauthors discuss the zombie as part of the zeitgeist, of something hugely significant in and about our culture. They think this reflects the crisis based in the loss of the “sacred canopy” of…
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