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How zombies are like our life-the modern life? This is a question which often pops up in my

mind whenever I hear the word zombie or think about them especially after reading “My

Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead” by Chuck Klosterman. “A lot of

modern life is exactly like slaughtering zombies” (Klosterman, 41). This means that the way

modern life is set-up or encountered is exactly like slaughtering the zombies. Being so, modern

life poses upon us the same psychological and social implications which slaughtering the

zombies pose, so it needs to be encountered with the same mindset. As zombie slaughtering is a

perpetual phenomenon, modern life and the challenges it brings to us are perpetual as well and

have the same monotony as zombie slaughtering has in it.

In my opinion, it is really like that. Slaughtering zombies is a simple process, they come in lines,

you keep slaughtering them till you are exhausted or zombies are exhausted and the entire

process is entirely simple and straightforward. There is nothing complicated or scientific to

understand. Zombies come in, they are simple to target, you learn targeting them and there you

go. You learn how to slaughter them and then the process continues. One zombie, the second, the

third, the fourth and so on and so forth, you keep slaughtering them. There is no special skill you

need to learn to slaughter the zombies. So is the modern life. You just need to develop a certain

habit and this would continue for the rest of the life. There may be no special thing you need to

learn to face the new challenges and things you learnt initially can continue indefinitely. This is

one similarity which the modern life has with the zombie phenomenon in my opinion as I have

explained above.

One particular point to be noted in this context is the boredom associated with the daily life.

Each day for a working man even, starts with getting up early in the morning, going for work,

spending the day with the same tasks as ever, signing off from work, returning back home,

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spending some time with the family and finally sleeping to complete the cycle before a new day

which shall repeat all the activities of the preceding day just like the way we slaughter zombies.

One comes, gets slaughtered, the next comes, gets slaughtered and so on and so forth.

“Every zombie war is a war of attrition. It’s always a number’s game. And it’s more repetitive

than complex. In other words, zombie killing is philosophically similar to reading and deleting

400 work e mails on a Monday morning or filling out paperwork, or following Twitter gossip out

of obligation, or performing tedious tasks in which the only true risk is being consumed by

avalanche. The principal downside to any zombie attack is that the zombies will never stop

coming; the principal downside to life is that you will never be finished with whatever it is you

do” (Klosterman, 41). Klosterman has depicted a true analogy of daily life to zombie

slaughtering by comparing the boredom and monotony associated with both.

One other point I have regarding the similarity of modern life with the zombie phenomenon is

that just like zombies continue coming over indefinitely, so does the events in the modern life

keep unfolding at us indefinitely and with the same frequency as ever. In order to understand this

further, consider the modern-day media and communication facilities like the television

channels, newspapers and internet news feeds to be zombies. They keep coming to you all the

time rather indefinitely without giving you a pause and you have to keep reacting or responding

to these stimuli in order to survive, just like slaughtering all the zombies which come your way

and the entire process is indefinite, monotonous and continually occurring till the process

consumes you or till you remain capable of surviving these zombie attacks by confronting them;

disposing them off as and when they come.

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How zombies are like our life-the modern life? This is a question which often pops up in my mind whenever I hear the word zombie or think about them especially after reading “My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead” by Chuck Klosterman. “A lot of modern life is exactly like slaughtering zombies” (Klosterman, 41). This means that the way modern life is set-up or encountered is exactly like slaughtering the zombies. Being so, modern life poses upon us the same psychological and social implications which slaughtering the zombies pose, so it needs to be encountered with the same mindset. As zombie slaughtering is a perpetual phenomenon, modern life and the challenges it brings to us are perpetual as well and have the same monotony as zombie slaughtering has in it. In my opinion, it is really like that. Slaughtering zombies is a simple process, they come in lines, you keep slaughtering them till you are exhausted or zombies are exhausted and the entire process is entirely simple and straightforward. There is nothing complicated or scientific to understand. Zombies come in, they are simple to target, you learn targeting them and there you go. You learn how to slaug ...
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