Vampires vs Zombies: Who's the Winner of the Recession Psyche?

As much as I love zombie knowledge, vampires tend to be more dynamic. There is a indisputable fact that the slow zombie is an emblem for the power of cooperation. Then there's the fast zombie. A mild-mannered nobody, maybe mired in a dead-end work, struggling to feed his family and pay his bills is suddenly changed into somebody whose only activities are to eat, run, and reproduce.

Rounding the corner to Christmas, I have monsters on the mind. Numerous things in this world are unsure, but the lasting charm of monsters isn't one of them. You can rely on monster magic like you can rely on good coffee - it never let's you down while you need it. These day vampires and zombies are taking turns mauling our limbic systems.

I'm of the opinion that the horror we appreciate most tends to mirror what's going on in our lives. Since we've been suffering the worst recession in nearly a century, makes sense that the monsters we gravitate toward will be projections of what we're feeling - and we haven't been feeling so great.

A lot of us feel like zombies - working ourselves into mindless nubs of barely recognizable humanity; brain numbed by catastrophic news; depressed by the absurdity of it all.

Plus, consider the flexibility of the zombie: put them in a horror movie and they're the perfect fit. Put them in a satire and they're the perfect fit. You want to send a social message about humanity's inevitable collision with bad karma? Zombies are what you need. You want to populate the post-war/plague/asteroid/climate-change world? Zombies got your mojo.

On the other hand, it's hard to shake our perennial lusty affair with the vampire. While the zombie may symbolize our pain and exhaustion, vampires offer the great escape. They're ethereal, powerful. Though we know they're evil, we can't help ourselves - their otherworldliness is like a really good drug lifting us above the world of stress and strife, consequences are damned.

And could there possibly be a monster with more staying power than the vampire? From young to old, people gorge themselves on vampire books, movies and TV shows like the idea of a blood drinking demon was just invented. I'm told that teenage girls aren't just still reading all of the Twilight books, they're re-reading them, sometimes three or four times over! HBO's series True Blood, which I admittedly like a lot, is on its way to Soprano-level popularity. And if you want to get people to your movie, put a vampire in it, or better yet a bunch of them. We never tire of their cunning wiles.

So which is it, the earthy representation of our angst, or devilish escape from what ails us? It could very well be a stalemate, but I'm going to call it anyway.

Vampire wins.

Why? Because when it comes right down to it, zombie love will only last so long. Eventually we'll pull out of our slump and reach something approaching stability again. At that point our passion for the decaying corpse will wane and we'll go back to just liking zombies. We'll always like our zombies.

However the vampire is the freak for all time. While we're hurting they provide a way out, and when we're feeling good they provide excitement. They're the last manifestation of power and terror, a combination that's as lasting as feeling itself. Like its namesake, vampire love just will not die.

I think we underestimate the liberating release of zombie horror. While it's real that the traditional slow zombie is a rampant metaphor for all our troubles, what comes about to this kind of zombie? The humans blast them away. Every head shot is like another aim accomplished, another boss rebelled against, and another cubicle slave set free.

Copyright by Lucy, a beautiful girl who likes swimming, shopping online and has a shop with discount coach purses and oakley m frames.