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"This form of Apocalypse myth will appeal to people with Right-wing values: they present a rough world where only people with Right-wing values are able to survive. [...] Zombie apocalypse stories are a refinement of this genre [...]

"Why does it matter that a genre has such a clean mapping to an ideology? The stories we tell and consume have a feedback loop with our expectations."

modernmythology.net/the-mythic

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@mxsparks this explains a lot about why I dislike the zombie apocalypse genre in general. the only exception is the book (NOT the movie) "World War Z," which took the basic premise to a global scale, and thoroughly examined and deconstructed some of the most common zombie apocalypse survival tropes.

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