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Welcome to our journey into the guts of The  Walking Dead . What kind of journey? A philosophical, psychoanalytical and political kind. What I would like to do over the next couple months is dig thought the  Walking Dead  episode by episode to see what it can teach us. Thank you for following me on this journey. I look forward to reading your comments. Be forewarned:  There are spoilers everywhere.  Don’t forget to check out my previous article in the Philosophizing TWD series:  Philosophizing The Walking Dead S2E2 Bloodletting or is Rick Menstruating? For the amount of tragedy and death involved in The Walking Dead there is surprisingly few religious references. Most of the God references that come from characters who have explicitly stated an ambiguous relationship towards God. In Blood Letting Rick belts out a prayer in an empty church while Shane and Carl wait outside. In the prayer, he seeks a sign in order to silence the dialog in his own head. The battle ground of his sel

Welcome to our journey into the guts of The  Walking Dead . What kind of journey? A philosophical, psychoanalytical and political kind. What I would like to do over the next couple months is dig thought the  Walking Dead  episode by episode to see what it can teach us. Thank you for following me on this journey. I look forward to reading your comments. Be forewarned:  There are spoilers everywhere.  Don’t forget to check out my previous article in the Philosophizing TWD series:  Philosophizing The Walking Dead S2E1 What Lies Ahead and Do Zombies Poop? Bloodletting is an old school method of medical treatment. Letting out some blood is based on the idea that too much blood built up in a human’s body which created tension or pressure that drove people crazy. Bloodletting was located in an Aristotelian medical model of mediums. In order to keep a proper sense of order a body needed to maintain a balance between extremes. Wikipedia argues “that “Bleeding” a patient to health was mo

Welcome to our journey into the guts of The  Walking Dead . What kind of journey? A philosophical, psychoanalytical and political kind. What I would like to do over the next couple months is dig thought the  Walking Dead  episode by episode to see what it can teach us. Thank you for following me on this journey. I look forward to reading your comments. Be forewarned:  There are spoilers everywhere.  Don’t forget to check out my previous article in the Philosophizing TWD series:   Philosophizing The Walking Dead S1E6 TS-19 And The Eternal Return Of The Zombie Zombie's want to eat the flesh and guts of living or dead things. They are compelled by presumably biological and/or metaphysicial forces pursuing the ruthless consumption of the flesh, but what benefit do they receive from their human and animal brain snacks? The meaty parts that they ingest (swallow might not be the right word) do not give them nutritional value.

Welcome to our journey into the guts of The  Walking Dead . What kind of journey? A philosophical, psychoanalytical and political kind. What I would like to do over the next couple months is dig thought the  Walking Dead  episode by episode to see what it can teach us. Thank you for following me on this journey. I look forward to reading your comments. Be forewarned:  There are spoilers everywhere.  Don’t forget to check out my previous article in the Philosophizing TWD series:  Philosophizing The Walking Dead S1E5 Wildfire And Ricktocracy Summary:  TS-19 begins with the door to the Center of Disease control opening. Rick and company head in and meet a manic depressive named Dr. Jenner. The survivors get drunk, and showers. At the end of the episode the CDC computer system goes homicidal and activates a self-destruct sequence. Dr. Jenner decided to say behind and explode. Three of the survivors join him. Two change their mind, and the rest of the survivors ride off into the

Welcome to our journey into the guts of The  Walking Dead . What kind of journey? A philosophical, psychoanalytical and political kind. What I would like to do over the next couple months is dig thought the  Walking Dead  episode by episode to see what it can teach us. Thank you for following me on this journey. I look forward to reading your comments. Be forewarned:  There are spoilers everywhere.  Don’t forget to check out my previous article in the Philosophizing TWD series: Philosophizing The Walking Dead S1E4 Vatos And Occupy Deez Brainz Between Rick and Shane there is a problem and her name is Lori. Shane uses her to try to flip Rick on his plan to head to the CDC. Rick uses her to alleviate his doubt and validated his self-esteem. Lori plays Rick against Shane in order to get him to stop dogging on her for some lovin' and uses Rick in order raise her status in the group (this is based on the idea that Lori knows that Rick is a more powerful leader than Shane and will w

Welcome to our journey into the guts of The Walking Dead . What kind of journey? A philosophical, psychoanalytical and political kind. What I would like to do over the next couple months is dig thought the Walking Dead episode by episode to see what it can teach us. Thank you for following me on this journey. I look forward to reading your comments. Be forewarned: There are spoilers everywhere. Don’t forget to check out my previous article in the Philosophizing TWD series: Philosophizing The Walking Dead S1E3 Tell It To The Frogs And The Failure Of Advocacy Summery We enter Vatos following two groups. Rick is leading a group to recover Merle and the base camp is dealing with Jim's psychotic break. Jim is freaking out and digging graves at the top of a hill. I had a difficult time with this episode. Bear with me, I get to zombies by the end.