Norton Field Guide

                                                       Norton field guide (revised)

 

            This short story in the Norton field guide on the zombie craze, that is going on using the walking dead the AMC TV show as an example the author Torie Bosch discusses how over 7 million people tune into watch a week and get pulled into the TV show. 

        She later states that the people that live throughout the Walking Dead TV show are regular people, blue collar folks. Not so much high businessmen or lawyers. Those folks with too much book smart and not enough street smarts would die out easily cause of the lack of practical resources they have always having their head in a book. 

        I find this to be a true concept, and Bosch later gives an example in her short story of how plumbing not being fixed can lead to a disaster for those unable to manage without it (mostly everyone). This is interesting concept that I never realized watching the Walking Dead, those real world abilities are important to understand, something the higher class tends to look over.

   The author actually states that once the economy recovers itself these end of the world plots will cease to be popular, makes me wonder if its human nature to turn to the negative first, or the negative intrigue us more once things tend to go down south.