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The Walking Dead: a Great Show, but Why? Humans Do Some God-Awful Things Once They Dehumanize Their Prey http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/grand-rounds/201110/the-walking-dead-great-show- why The Walking Dead: A Great Show, But Why? Humans do some God-awful things once they dehumanize their prey. Published on October 16, 2011 by Steven Schlozman, M.D. in Grand Rounds 0 inShare Season 2 of The Walking Dead premiers tonight. To say that round one of this series was a success is a bit like saying Sandy Koufax only kind of knew how to throw a baseball.The Walking Dead had the largest premier audience in AMC history (and remember, AMC also has Mad Men and Breaking Bad, two of the very best shows on television). The season finale of The Walking Dead reached around 6 million viewers, with up to 4 million of them between the ages of 18 and 49. The show demonstrated surprisingly broad appeal across multiple demographics and piqued interest among essayists and critics who were eager to discuss everything from apocalyptic allure to genderrelations. But wait a minute. This is a show, basically a kind of Western really, about a somewhat bumbling hero and a bunch of adults and kids who probably wouldn't even congregate at a same-company tailgate party, and who now must try to outlast the millions of shambling corpses that have mysteriously come back to "life" and seem hell-bent on slowly and methodically (if not clumsily) eating whatever humans happen to remain in the general Atlanta metropolitan area. This is what all the fuss is about? Related Articles The Psychology of Thrift: Why Not Frugal Cool? Love, by the Numbers Millennium On Our Mind Home Won't Sell? Try Two Prices Instead of One Bacon: Time To End This Crazy Love Affair Find a Therapist Search for a mental health professional near you. City or Zip Find Local: Acupuncturists Chiropractors Massage Therapists Dentists and more! City or Zip You betcha. Based on last year, I'd say it's a damn good show. And lest you think I make these claims because I am both an avowed zombie fan and have written a zombie novel, take a look at metacritic.com or rottentomatoes.com. I'm not exactly going out on a limb in praising this one. But, as enthusiasm for zombie themes continues to spread like a creepy new virus, I have been asked in increasingly vexing tones by everyone from radio hosts at NPR to students at universities around the country the same nagging question: Why? Why are we so glued to the zombie trope? I addressed this earlier in the year in this very blog, and I'll admit that none of what I wrote was really all that original. Many have commented on the zombification of modern living, of the disconnected, mindless way that we stumble through our daily lives without really noticing how things are not quite right. But I think there's something more to all this. I think the modern zombie tale might harbor its greatest appeal by mimicking and perhaps even giving permission for the nasty ways we humans increasingly and publically treat one another. Let me give you an example. My daughter asked me last summer why Speaker of the House John Boehner reportedly had failed or refused to return the President's phone call. I couldn't answer her, couldn't tell her that it was polite behavior, and in fact I realized that I had never heard of anything like that before. I even wandered around the Internet and asked some historian friends for examples of similar incidences. Whether this is an accurate portrayal of what actually happened is not really the point. The point is that when I read about the incident at all sorts of web sites, the comments referred to the President as a "Turdball" and to the Speaker of the House as a "Piece of Sh*t." This got me thinking as well about the famous "You Lie" accusation from Representative Wilson in 2009. More recently I thought of the deliberate illegal hit by New Orleans Saints NFL star Roman Harper. When asked about whether he regretted the hit and the subsequent $15,000 fine, he reportedly said he would do it again in order to get opposing teams to respect the Saints in future outings. Somehow, all this unseemliness felt, well...tacky. And, all this unseemliness seemed to share some tacky common themes. So I found myself once again thinking about zombies. Or, more accurately, I found myself thinking about the stupid ways that humans behave when zombies are around. There is in fact an arguably familiar pattern in human-zombie interactions that is now increasingly characteristic of high profile human-human interactions. It works like this: In most zombie movies, the humans start off by struggling with the most psychologically difficult task of any zombie outbreak. They must convince themselves that the things that look and sort of act human are in fact not human. They have to do that in order to get comfortable bashing in the brains of the zombies. It's really that simple. It you HAVE to bash in something's brains, it's easier if that something isn't your girlfriend anymore no matter how much it looks like her. So, the humans dehumanize the zombies, and in doing so they create a kind of hierarchy of worthiness. Zombies are worth less than humans, are in fact biologically or existentially dead, and therefore you can freely and with clean conscience bash in their brains. In many zombie movies, some of the humans seem to take obvious pleasure in their new- found freedom to destroy. Have you ever read Conrad's Heart of Darkness? Have you studied the Milgram Experiments or the Stanford Prison Experiment? Humans can do some God-awful things once they dehumanize their prey. This is what happens to the humans in zombie stories. The humans take that same well- honed capacity for dehumanization that they've perhaps appropriately used on the zombies and they utilize it to express their animosity in human-to-human interactions. That's why the humans in The Walking Dead wallop one other with at least as much vigor as they fight the zombies. They fall into the predictable pattern of categorization that allows humans to call other humans something less than human, and their primitive brains lap up this cognitive restructuring like a crocodile chomps at raw chicken. So - I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that this is a stretch. You're thinking that there is a big freakin' difference between Mr. Boehner's use of caller ID and bashing in someone's head with the blood-lust of a zombie-hunter. And I, of course, agree. But I will argue this much: it is a slippery slope. If Mr. Boehner ignored those calls, he gave the message that he had decided at least at the time that the President was something less than the President. The same can be said of Mr. Wilson when he interrupted the President's Speech. When Roman Harper decided it was OK and even admirable to just up and attack someone, he was saying, in essence, that if you disrespect me, you are less than me, and if you are less than me, then I can hurt you with impunity. Zombies force us to bring out our very worse qualities and to turn them on each other. We exercise the regions of the brain that we are often least proud of but to which we are also paradoxically most vulnerable. In primitive moments, we even celebrate these otherwise shameful acts, but that celebration is a cognitive ruse. We're worse off for these lapses, and we know it. We NEED each other, and that means finding ways to break bread together. That means finding ways to be civil. That means using the brain in its entirety - zombies of course can't do this, but we can. It's just that with zombies around, with all that disconnection, it becomes easy for humans to lose perspective. If zombies stories show us how not to be, then those same stories can therefore show us ourselves at our very best. Lately, though, I worry that I mostly read about humans who grossly misbehave. We're human; we all screw up. But we have these great big brains that are there to help us to understand and to examine how and why we screw up in the first place. If we don't do that self-examination...well, heaven help us all if the zombies really do come calling. Steve Schlozman's first novel, The Zombie Autopsies, was published this year. He is also a contributor to the new book of essays, The Triumph of the Walking Dead. http://www.ign.com/wikis/the-walking-dead/Comic_vs._TV_Show Staying true is a serious issue for any type of media that attempts to cross over into another type. One must consider fans of the original content, but also a new audience that has no history with the series. DISCLAIMER: There are possible SPOILERS ahead! The crew behind AMC's The Walking Dead have done a stand-up job so far with their adaptaion of the Robert Kirkman comic series, and most seem to agree that the characters in the comics are represented quite well on screen. The casting choices have received fairly positive feedback and some of the characters have even more depth on screen than their two dimensional counterparts. However, one difference in casting in noticably different than the comics.
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