Is there a more apt metaphor right now for the way
humanity is apparently destroying the planet and, in the process, itself than a
worldwide zombie plague? The dead eyes, the mindless action based purely on
need and instinct, and humanity eating itself alive without a care for the end
result look a little like the way we plumb the planet for resources, always
taking and never looking toward the future. World
War Z is a bit more topical and on the nose than your average summer
blockbuster – if you want to read it as something more than fodder for the
masses, who flock to the tent pole action movies like the zombies glom to live
flesh, but that’s maybe another reading altogether.
