Marching Toward Zombieland is political? So says James Howard Kunstler.
The "people" across this big country may not have a clue how any of this is done, and there may be much to fault them on from the care-and-feeding of their own bodies to the content of their dreams, but you can't argue with the fact that they are heavily armed to an extreme. And although it may be hard to measure with precision, one might venture to state that they are increasingly pissed off. How else explain popular entertainments like "Zombieland?" (italics added)
Because the movie is funny? Which it is.
Only someone who hasn't seen it or with excess of imagination could think that there is any political content at all in Zombieland. I saw it Saturday night and I thought it was very funny and with no political message whatsoever except....well I can't find one even by reaching. OK. Maybe "Zombies are bad." How is that for trenchant political insight? The movie doesn't even start to suggest reasons why the country was laid waste by zombies beyond, I think it was, "a bug."
However I do agree that the Goldman Sachs profits were scandalous and will have political repercussions. And the appointment last week of a Goldman Sachs employee — all of 29 years old — to be head of an important enforcement division at the SEC was comical, no matter how bright he might be.