World War Z as a Sociopolitical Assessment of Globalization

knowledge base contend Z as a Sociopolitical Assessment of Globalization cosmea fightf ar Z denominateed readers that what may concur worked in peace time was out or keeping(p) for war. By doing so nominates was able to make a accredited assessment of our current global systems with the overarching evaluation of globalizations genuine and metamorphical infectiousness. He uses the apologue to comment on the social issues such as government ineptitude, time also contend on innate man fear and our mogul to adapt to advanced situations for the sake of survivability.By adding an overarching apocalyptical rootage with a touch of old-fashi oned snake god gore, Brooks is able to render a conceitful, entertaining assessment of how different parts of the world would move to a widespread crisis. World contend Z is one of the roughly creative social commentary of our times. It is chilling, to say the least, not only because of the ghouls themselves, entirely also how th e delay of the world reacts to them. Max Brooks was able to demo a huge range of motivations and human intentions in this novel that could be comparable to a sociological study of humans in a time of crisis.He also does an excellent job of describing the sort of cold, logical readying that was necessary in order to survive a living dead revealing and that blush after the war is over, the world still has a ample way to go before it tail end move on. Survivalism and disaster prepargondness are two other dominant themes in the novel. Many of the interviews in World contend Z that come from get together States citizens focus on policy changes with the intent of training themselves to thwart off zombi spirit attacks and, in a post-apocalyptic world, rebuilding the state of matter to its former glory.This was an inte quietusing policy for the United States to take up, as it completely changed the social hierarchy by putt the working class mechanic above the CEO of a multimill ion sawbuck corporation (Brooks, 2006 140). Throughout the novel, Brooks repeatedly presents characters with the sort of mental and sensual toughness required to survive a disaster. Although ones visible fitness is a factor that attributes to ones survivability, many of these interviews are of ordinary people with extraordinary resiliency who were able to rise to the phone lineator when they were needed.In this sense, readers can see a distinction in the United States from the rest of the world in that its citizens are a nation full of individualists who remember that they have the ability to survive any dire situation as long as one has the right in any casels and talent (Brooks, 2004 140). It was also inspirational to read that in times of extreme adversity man can be beaten and brought to his knees but also rise up to show his resilience, When snake gods were first written about, they seemed to be created by magic. In recent decades, however, their origins have become mo re and more complex.Today, one would be hard press to find a zombie spirit novel or movie where the origin of the zombie species is not from radioactivity and viruses being used as a sort of biological state of war. One thing that many books in the zombie genre do not address is how the rest of the world develops weapons to specifically deal with the zombie threat. Brooks not only creates rude(a) weapons in his zombiverse, he also finds new uses for previously existing ones. It is true that new wars create new technology and there is no better inducing than a worldwide crisis such as a potential zombie apocalypse.World War Z is no exception to this fact, as various peoples around the world were able to adapt and overcome technical limitations when it came to facing a new resistance. The United States Marines, for example, are credited for creating the Lobotomizer, a fusion of shovel and double-bladed battle-axe improvised from the recycled steel of cars (Brooks, 2006 146). Peo ple were also able to repurpose the resources that they had in new ways, such as using K-9 units to sniff out zombie peoples (Brooks, 2006 283).This adaptation and repurposing of resources was crucial in the Zombie War effort and is a reflection on how important a militarys ability to adapt to new situations is in establishing victory in a war. In Why do some people work out they know what is trusty for others? Naeem Inayatulla talks about many westerlyized countrys desire to declare aid to these third world countries and how this can prove to be futile if done with the view that these impoverished countries need to be given what the western world thinks they need (Inayatulla, 2009 345).This point is further emphasized in Brooks novel when he describes how these third world countries seemed to fare the same, if not a bit better than their first world counterparts. This is especially true when one reads the section of the book with the interview of Xolelwa Azania, or Paul Rede ker in the United States of Southern Africa. This interview talks about the origins of the Redeker Plan, which was a overbearing way of intentionally sacrificing a large portion of a population in order to save another population in a more easily defensible or important location (Brooks, 2006 106).During the zombie outbreak in South Africa, Redeker adapted his Plan orangeness 84 into a zombie survival of the fittest political platform should the outbreak become a serious threat. Plan Orange 84 was a doomsday scenario survival plan for the Apartheid government if the Black African population rose up against the White Afrikaners. Being a logical and dispassionate person who thought emotions such as love and hate to be inefficient, Plan Orange made Redeker a hated man in South Africa.Although this plan came at the cost of Redekers sanity, it proved to help out the rest of the world by allowing them to adopt and modify the plan for themselves, in appurtenance to indirectly saving t housands, if not millions of people from being turned into zombies and so wiping out the human wake. This leads into the argument that authoritarian regimes tend to be close to effective during times of war. It seems that democracies tend to be roughly effective during peacetime, while authoritarian regimes function best under times of war or crisis.The reason why this is so effective is because of fear. Authoritarian regimes are most effective when its citizens are afraid of what mightiness get to them if they break the right or participate in suspicious activities. This is especially true during World War II, when Adolf Hitler was able to amass support from almost an entire country using fear and intimidation. There are many parallels that can be drawn between World War II and World War Z, such as the early responses to the impending crisis. That is to say, arly warnings went unheeded, profiteers made millions selling a placebo to the masses and the military prepared itself with the tools that would have been perfect for the last war that it fought. This is all combined to highlight the fact that almost no one really paid much attention to the crisis until it was staring them in the face, or, more appropriately, shambling towards them. Another prevalent theme that Brooks considers in World War Z is not only that of fear, but the uncertainty that breeds that fear. Zombies are the perfect harbinger of the apocalypse because they do not play by the traditional rules of the game. Any other enemy, be it another nation or a group of terrorists, initiates or receives an attack and then this sort of back-and-forth warfare begins where you go and fight them and then they retaliate. Zombies have no wartime strategy or vendetta against any particular group. They are thoughtless, infectious humanoids who are driven by one of the most basic instincts of seeking out their attached object of consumption. It is the mindlessness of the zombie theme that plays so per fectly into the apocalyptic genre and furthermore the fear of an enemy that acts more like a virus than a predator.A predator is naturally intelligent and knows not to over-hunt its territory, lest it thirst to death. Zombies are undead, and will just continue to infect and consume condescension everything. Although the zombie war was rightfully portrayed as a dim event, there were some good things that seemed to come out of the war. For example, cooperation between Israel and the contiguous Muslim countries greatly increased during the Great Panic. Israel opened its borders to everyone regardless of their race or religious affiliation.Although this was only for a short time, this act utter volumes throughout the world. While this may be a somewhat too idealistic portrayal of what could happen in a situation such as the one presented in World War Z, it is inspirational to intend countries that were once enemies band together to face a common enemy in order to survive. Perhaps one of the more surprising stories in World War Z is how Brooks imagines Cuba dealing with the zombie crisis and even coming out as one of the worlds postwar superpowers. Cuba became an ideal refuge for a number of reasons.Besides being surrounded by Caribbean waters, which gave Cubans time to prepare for the invasion, their lack of diplomatic ties to the United States, their militaristic despotism and their generally well-educated populace helped to resist the first waves of zombies. Early outbreaks were handled in brutal fashion and the Cuban military fortified their shorelines early on and only let in the most desirable workers and talent. Although Cuba was by no means spared from the heavy fighting during the war, their early successes made them one of, if not the most desirable nation to flee to (Brooks, 2006 228-233).World War Z is a novel that redefined and repopularized a genre while also giving a thought-provoking look on how the world might react to a disaster on a worldw ide scale. Max Brooks writes his novel with such a finesse and realistic perspective that one might be misled into thinking that a zombie apocalypse is something that could actually happen in the future. The personal accounts of people help to give a frighteningly accurate commentary on modern society by playing into innate human fear and desire to survive.All in all, World War Z takes a serious, geopolitical and sociopolitical look at a marvelous premise and disastrous event with a keen eye for detail. He also shows just how resilient man can be when approach with extreme adversity. Brooks, Max. 2006. World War Z an oral history of the zombie war. 1st ed. New York Crown. Inayatulla, Naeem. 2009. Why do some people think they know what is good for others? in Global Politics a new introduction, edited by Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss, (New York Routledge), Ch. 15, pp. 344-369.