Politicians are not all boring or liars, nor doctors interested in nothing but clinical intrigues, nor teachers know only preaching doctrines, nor clergymen constantly giving out free sermons. Menel Loutrito is a lawyer, and a writer - about Zombis!
Doors are opened to Zombis, made in Spain, with his trilogy 'Apocalipsis Zombi', born in Blogs and with 1 and a half million followers. Now with the culmination 'The fury of the righteous'. For mental hygiene he said, was the reason he wrote about Zombis. He wanted to write a story furthest possible from juridical literature, the most arid that one could imagine. And the Zombis show the collapse of the most affluent and orderly world of laws and rights.
His are stories of ordinary people in extraordinary situations. What happens if the society, the world were overthrown and you, not Bruce Willis, was the protagonist. The sensation of utter chaos: when you click the switch and no light comes on, you turn the tap but no water runs, and see how we would confront all that, and now ... Suddenly we are left to our own defence, and converting from great predators to become quarries. Terror stories go beyond gore effects, they serves us to confront our own fears. It also seems that seeing others in worse situations than our own bring about some sort of consolation.
It's not a joke. A few days ago, the centre for the Control and Prevention of diseases of the United States, posted in the official Blog 'Apocalipsis Zombi', a guide to survive a hypothetical attack of the living dead. It's the most read item in the history of the web. The advice serves equally to earthquakes, plagues or nuclear accidents.
According to News Week, the Zombis are official monsters of crisis because they reappear always in times of maximum tension. They surfaced in the beginning of the 70's with the petrol crisis, reappeared in the middle of 80's with the danger of the Nuclear War, then again at the peak of the economic crisis of the 90's and with the one at present. They signify the chaos, the loss of your universe; and the reader, who see it as real possibility, feel identified with such stories, despite the introduction in them of such incredible elements as the living dead.
Some said that a human is more dangerous than a Zombi. That's a lie. In extreme situations the best and worst come out, usually the worst. We are by nature predators, and we can be so even with ourselves.
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