World War Zionism?

I will admit that I never really had a dog in the fight between the Israelis and Palestinians. Therefore my mind doesn't always go there when I see or read something that could be construed as bigoted towards Palestinians or even anti-semitic. I went with my wife to see World War Z last weekend and I will say that the thought of Pro Israel propaganda did cross my mind. I didn't think too much more of it until I read this interview in the Washington Post with the writer of the book World War Z, Max Brooks. Brooks says essentially that the zombies in the book could be considered Islamic terrorists. To be exact he said: "Max Brooks is asked by a caller in Alexandria, VA if he “compare(s) the zombies to today's fundamentalist Islamists? i.e., unthinking, uncaring, irrational villains who kill for the sake of killing?” He replies: “The lack of rational thought has always scared me when it came to zombies, the idea that there is no middle ground, no room for negotiation. That has always terrified me. Of course that applies to terrorists, but it can also apply to a hurricane, or flu pandemic, or the potential earthquake that I grew up with living in L.A. Any kind of mindless extremism scares me, and we're living in some pretty extreme times."


This is a pretty long article and contains spoilers from the movie but not so much from the book, I think. I really thought the following paragraph from the article was an insightful perspective on our society's current zombie hysteria:


"Its fun to speculate about what motivates the heightened zombie vogue, what psychological and social angst it reveals. On the one hand, there is the fear of declining Empire, the fear of anarchy and chaos should the bottom fall any further out of our privileged economy. This makes perfect sense, and seems to have a lot of merit. On the other hand, the zombie meme may be less about looming Armageddon, and more about a nagging subconscious awareness that the extreme inequalities of our current world order are in fact already a kind of zombie-scape, in which almost 3 billion people live in such extreme poverty, largely removed from the view of Westerners, malnourished and off the grid, that they are real life living dead in a way, and they have lots of reason to come for us, looking to eat us, or at least consume our ill-gotten wealth. Maybe it's a little of both."


If you've gotten this far and you have seen the movie or don't care about spoilers, read the article. Then you can agree or disagree with it.


http://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/hollywoods-zionist-embrace.html