Well this is an interesting view on why society loves zombies. Personally I think it’s because they are such a wonderful monster. They are human but no longer human. There’s no coming back from being a zombie and if an outbreak were to happen everything would change. It’s the type of an apocalypse that would allow humanity to show both it’s very best and it’s very worst.
Zombies are EVERYWHERE!! Wait, don’t panic- we mean in pop culture, not outside your window. But why is that? Bad guys and monsters seem to go through phases: one decade there’s a dozen movies about aliens, ten years later it’s vampires. And right now, it’s zombies. And monsters don’t pop up for no reason at all. There must be something that makes us fixate on one antagonist trope; some qualities they hold that echo a deeper cultural fear… So what are we afraid of now? It might just be technology.
