Friday, July 5, 2013

Spengler 'Splains That Zombie Thing

Re America's current fascination with these creatures he writes:
Dying cultures are the living dead. Half of the world’s 6,000 languages will disappear by the end of this century. They are zombie cultures. But we Americans are gestating a zombie culture inside what used to be a “country with the soul of a church,” as G.K. Chesterton put it. The hedonistic narcissism that took over popular culture during the 1960s produced a spiritual deadening like nothing in American history. That’s why we are so fascinated with zombies. We identify with them.
"We," maybe, but not me. As I've said before, I'm not a fan of the undead, the non-dead, the been dead, or the done dead. I say when you're dead stay that way, and don't come back.

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