The most interesting thing that I found in my historical research was at the
Louvre and there is a bronze statue of death that was originally in the
Cemetery the Innocents surrounded by that fresco of the Danse Macabre. The
statue is bronze, he's got an arm raised menacingly, I think probably a spear, or a
sword, that's what he was holding and if you did not know where you were, in the
medieval sculpture section of the Louvre, you would think that it was a special
effect from a modern zombie film. It actually looks like the walking dead
back to life. And so I think one of the things that we find when we think about
this phenomenon, is that all of our art and culture is a part of the process
that we use to make meaning. We make meaning through religion and
through our wisdom traditions, but we also make meaning, consciously or
unconsciously, through the stories that we consume and this story about zombies
is as Evan Calder William says: the nightmare image of the day. Because it's
the nightmare image that we need. And strangely enough, it also seems to be
this kind of reaction of the human immune system, to put death front and
center in these times when we feel like we're already surrounded by it. And in
some way, that helps us to cope with it a little bit more powerfully.
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