Comments on: INTERVIEW: H.E. Goodhue, author of Zombie Youth: Playground Politics

By: Kristin Centorcelli

Kristin Centorcelli — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:24:08 +0000

My pleasure!

By: H.E. Goodhue

H.E. Goodhue — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:03:04 +0000

Hey Splicer,

Many people use zombies as a lens to examine aspects of society, even the unsavory ones you mentioned. Romero artfully did so in the original Night of the Living Dead. Zombies have always been a valuable tool for examining our society and are perhaps even more so now.

Thanks,
H.E.

By: Splicer

Splicer — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:41:44 +0000

A good followup question to the answer about why zombies are popular would have been whether he thinks the obsession with zombies is a subtly classist and perhaps even racist attitude towards the “hordes” (his word) of people who might suffer the most from a societal collapse.

By: Paul (@princejvstin)

Paul (@princejvstin) — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:10:04 +0000

Thanks, Kristin.