Zombies and Economics

I often mention that my VHS copy of Dawn of the Dead has a brilliant "Theme Description" box on the back. "Themes: Horror, Zombies, Consumerism." In an email brain-dump today, I managed to use the genre in the same way...

From St Shed's Letters to the Gazmatrons:

The global economy is like a zombie, shuffling along based on primal urges, and at the moment it's caught in semi-automatic machine gun fire, knocking it backwards and it's struggling to get up off the floor. The doozy is that it's wearing a bullet-proof helmet, so there's no chance of headshots finishing it off. But that machine gun is going to have to be reloaded, and when it is, that zombie's going to lurch forward, confident that it can reach an ever out-of-reach target and feast on society's sweet, sweet brains. And then the guns start again, and it will falter, but keep going... and even if the guys shooting it manage to finish it off with a rocket-propelled grenade, as it's been staggering along it's managed to infect everyone it came into contact with, so another near-identical zombie economic system will be stumbling forward forthwith.

Ace. I married up Economics with George Romero.