Madeline Nickell 2/16/18 For most of us, vampires and zombies are the fictional monsters that haunt our dreams and frighten us with their infectious bites. That is understandable for a kindergartener, but for the rest of us that hide under our covers until we know the monsters under our beds have officially taken their lunch breaks, maybe our fears are more justified. Vampires and zombies aren’t just silly storybook characters; they are living in the White House, they reside in the Supreme Court, and we see and hear them on the news and in our everyday lives. Vampires aren’t just bloodsucking movie characters that sleep in coffins. They are the sexually promiscuous, religion defying, and vaguely foreign liberals that strike so much fear into …show more content…
We see ourselves in vampires and zombies. We see ourselves because a lot of them were once us. We fear that they are like the people around us, and we fear that we could be like them one day. I would like to agree with the philosophies of John Locke, in that humans are inherently good, and it’s our experiences that shape who we are and how we act. We see this in vampires and zombies, and how politics shapes them. Vampires and zombies are essentially humans with only the qualities that we find scary and sickening. They lack all of the things that make humans great: passion, intelligence, empathy, and bitchin’ tans. Everyone is afraid of both creatures because we know that we could become one of them, and the other threatens our beliefs. These aren’t just dumb horror movies, because these horror movies have become our lives. We live in a world where opposition doesn’t just mean different. It means danger, and it makes people feel as though they must do everything they can to either change someone else’s mind or make others feel bad for having their own beliefs and