Chuck Klosterman is a part of the visiting writer series here at Lenoir-Rhyne but unfortunately I was not able to attend when he came to visit, so I will write a little something about one of his pieces.
In Chuck Klosterman’s article, “My Zombie, Myself”, he talks about why people are so interested in zombies and how we can compare zombies to everyday. In the article Klosterman describes zombies as “wordless and oozing and braindead, but they’re an ever-expanding market with no glass ceiling.” Klosterman says we are so interested in zombies because of how much people can relate to them. Not just as a fear but a lot of modern life is exactly like slaughtering zombies. Klosterman compares the modern zombie to the internet, the media and every conversation we don’t want to have, saying “It comes at us endlessly, and-if we surrender-we will be overtaken and absorbed.”
In this article that Klosterman writes about zombies, he does a good job of comparing zombies in everyday life. I think that zombies in the world today is the internet and social media. The world we live in today would not be productive if there was not this kind of technology because we have become so accustom to it. These things come at us every day in life and they never stop, just like in the popular television show the walking dead. The zombies never stop coming at them and they have to fight every day to keep from being consumed. Just like we do in the world today to keep from being consumed by technology and social media.
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