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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 S2E6 Secrets And Lies That Make Truth Possible What is the goal of therapy? A social worker or therapist might argue the purpose of therapy is to get people to be happier or live more successful lives. For many reasons people enter into a maladaptive pattern or get fed up with a certain way of living. People seek out professionals to talk out their problems. Shrinks and priests come to the rescue and listen in order to deceive the malady that has someone in knots. Religious l

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 S2E5 Chupacabra, Daryl and the Myth of Sisyphus Secrets is about... well secrets, no? Lori is juggling a complex pile of lies. She is pregnant because she bumped dirties with Shane, and but Shane does not know he is the baby daddy. On the other side of the farm Hershel is lying by omission about the zombies shambling around in his barn. The question this episode begs is: What is the right truth?

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 S2E4 Cherokee Rose and Zombie Dating Sisyphus thought he was a slick dude. He thought he could play one God against another. Cleverly manipuating information to meet his ends. Zeus, realizing his mistake, ordered Thanatos to chain Sisyphus in Tartarus. Sisyphus then manipulated Thanatos to let him see the magical chains which helped Thanatos regulate Death. With Thanatos chained human could not die. This irked Ares because his war games lost their entertainment value. The gods

The internet has been whining for several decades that remakes are not as good or as scary as the originals. In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970's and 2000's: Why They Don't Do It Like They Used To by David Roche the original vs. remake argument is thoroughly fleshed out. Roche targets his argument on four pairs of films: Halloween (1978/2007), Dawn of the Dead (1978/2004), The Hills Have Eyes (1977/2007), and Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974/2003). Unlike the internet, David Roche is a competent philosopher with a ruthless argued set of points that digs into themes at topics such as race, ethnicity, class, the American family, gender, sex, remaking films, monsters, and mask. All the fun topics that horror movies are good at playing with. This book is ultimately a study of adaptation. Roche, 2014, Loc. 335

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 S2E3 Save Last One and Do Zombies Believe In God? One rose is an expression of sentiment. A dozen roses is symbolic oppression. - Simone De Beauvior