Not true, sometimes they also learn about the world through video games like Call of Duty and movies like American Sniper and university professors like Jordan Peterson
Is Peterson one of those cultural marxist professors you hear so much about?
I’m glad they made the point that this is not how the genre has always been. Early Romero stuff had some fantastic politics for the time.
Horror has always had a whole lot of marxist influence. Marx loved his vampire analogies.
There’s a whole podcast dedicated to analysing horror from a marxist lens: Horror Vanguard.
Love the replies being like “muh tv shows don’t cause murders” while completely ignoring the reinforcing of certain stereotypes (White male savior with a gun), the symbolism in the stories and the appeal of the shows to reactionaries.
Wow, I never made that connection in my head, but now it’s obvious.
By some strange coincidence I saw a video about this whole thing with Zombie movies shifting away from critique of consumerism. https://youtu.be/Fjm6gdzhoTs
