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In my next video I'm going to untangle a genre that has become massively popular in the last few years: the zombie story. I’ve always liked zombie stories, though mostly as guilty pleasures, but the main reason I want to make this video is because I think it is a genre that, despite being so popular, has gone largely unexamined in terms of deeper meanings, and I want to dive into that because I also think these deeper meanings have grown quite messy; zombies have come to mean a lot of things in a lot of different stories, from the terrors of our existential fears to the mindless victims of our power fantasies, from reflections of our humanity to embodiments of our cynicism and selfishness. In short, it’s going to be a more classical video essay on storytelling that casts a critical look at the meanings we all too often take for granted. See you soon!