Capitalism and Zombies

Capitalism has made us all into zombies. It is a plague that runs freely among our society; that takes its strength from the very people it infects because we willingly continue to let it sink its teeth into our flesh. Willingly, we give up our souls to feed and nurture that capitalistic plague because in turn, we need it to feed ourselves. How ironic it is that we give up our souls for capitalism, when our souls are the things that are of utmost worth.

Most of us have let greed infest our minds to a point that we have become unconcerned and neglectful of the more important things in life we know exists. We live only to roam this earth searching for something that will satisfy that certain hunger; obtaining it is only half the hardship. The other half is the stress that piles and is compiled and then recompiled in our brain at the mercy of this inevitable virus.

Zombies.

Hungry for one thing.

Mindless of other things.

In the end, we might just be the very creatures that destroy us.

Historical allegory. June of 2012, the Zombie Man shows itself in Miami and eats the face off of a beggar. While the beggar portrays the raw form of capitalism due to his public and physical act of begging for money, his physical appearance of becoming a zombie symbolizes the final and actual stage of this capitalistic plague's infestation. Figuratively in society, and literally in the painting.