tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post1848360185536464652..comments2023-07-09T07:45:50.552-07:00Comments on Socialism and/or barbarism: Nothing personalECWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02142600295759704786noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post-23578718308330875342009-09-05T09:34:05.253-07:002009-09-05T09:34:05.253-07:00Yeah, but they're jewel thieves hiding out in ...Yeah, but they're jewel thieves hiding out in a factory. I want industrial laboring zombies. Then again, given the contraction of manufacturing in the period and location of Romero's films, they are already about that in part: the zombies, staggering in the light, like someone getting off a night shift, still going through the repetitive motion of the assembly line.<br /><br />Indeed, regarding the cynicism, and it distinctly reinflects the broader apocalyptic movie tradition - particularly nuclear fear cinema of the 50's - of "the scientists got us into this mess, and their solutions will only make it worse."ECWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02142600295759704786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post-19800169334946181522009-09-04T11:46:08.759-07:002009-09-04T11:46:08.759-07:00"A zombie apocalypse scenario set in a factor..."A zombie apocalypse scenario set in a factory doesn’t exist, to my knowledge"<br /><br />Here you go:<br /><br />http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273302/<br /><br />"To hearken back to the “missing question” of transmission, they lack the capacity – or, more frequently, refuse the consequences of such a thought – to fathom how the global transmits to the local."<br /><br />I reminded here of something that I always found disturbing during Dawn of the Dead which are the scenes in which a distinguished scientist fellow is publicly ridiculed by those he is trying to save by giving the 'cold hard facts'. Those facts having relevance only in a situation where effective collective action would still be possible not where even the police are breaking into bands of robbers to look for "an island". It's hard to tell who's more cynical, the scientist recommending the nuclear destruction of major cities or the citizens who are so atomized they no longer give a damn.Isaacnoreply@blogger.com