Can you tell if the fetish for zombies is starting to pale (har har) by the availability of theme linked merchandise? The commericalisation is getting serious. Zombies are getting perhaps a little over hyped like vampyres before them. That phase went most recently from Buffy until Raising Whatshername killed it off (alived it off?) through sheer crapiness. Not cheesiness, which is okay, but crapiness, which is disrespectful.
Zombies are now so popular, or perhaps it's zombie survival stories, possibly indicating a deeply and widely felt desire for a simpler world where it's easy to tell who the bad guys are (nearly everyone, including yourself presumably) and to have a fortified village (or prison, how existentialist) with people you know you can trust (because otherwise you will kill them, probably when they come to kill you).
It's very Wild West isn't it? Presumably zombies are the Indians (sorry, Native Americans) who provide a constant socially unifying threat who may be offed at will because they are conveniently already dead so no serious moral difficulties there (unlike, say, Afghans or Iraqis or Islamic peoples in general). I suppose considering how many Native Americans were infected by European diseases, they were already walking dead, whether they knew it or not, during the European expansion into America. Much like our very own indigenous inhabitants here in Oz. See Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs & Steel. Or not.
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