Short Text Analysis of "First, Eat All the Lawyers"
White-Collar vs Blue-Collar
Even though on the surface it's portrayed as a fictional occurrence, the zombie apocalypse boom is really about the economic fears of white-collar workers simply because these people don't have the necessary skills to survive under such a threat and blue-collar workers would have the upper hand in surviving because of their immense survival skills.
White-collar jobs are on the rise in today’s world. They are not as dirty or as labor intensive as blue-collar jobs. It is not that white-collar jobs are not needed; it is just that blue-collar jobs make the world work like it should. The author wrote “The zombie apocalypse is a white-collar nightmare: a world with no need for the skills we have developed. Lawyers, journalists, investment bankers—they are liabilities, not leaders, in the zombie-infested world. (The exception to this rule, of course, is doctors.)” (Bosch). While white-collar workers claim to make a more decent living, their lack of skills is immense when compared to your local auto mechanic.
The Walking Dead has the viewer rooting for the underdog. Humans have always rooted for the underdog. To beat the odds in survive in this post-apocalyptic world is amazing. The author wrote, “For blue-collar workers, the zombie stories are tales of comeuppance, of triumph: skills in auto maintenance, farming, plumbing, and electrical work—not to mention marksmanship—land blue-collar folks at the top of the new social order. This is not a bad thing, but it's nevertheless deeply disorienting to anyone who thought a college degree would mean never having to fix a generator.” (Bosch)
A lot of white-collar workers lack the necessary skills to fix a car or get a generator running. They rely on other blue-collar workers to fix it for them. They enjoy a life of luxury as long as they can afford it. Dirty work is foreign and is unknown to these people. They have created their own little world inside of a dirty and hard-working world that
Even though on the surface it's portrayed as a fictional occurrence, the zombie apocalypse boom is really about the economic fears of white-collar workers simply because these people don't have the necessary skills to survive under such a threat and blue-collar workers would have the upper hand in surviving because of their immense survival skills.
White-collar jobs are on the rise in today’s world. They are not as dirty or as labor intensive as blue-collar jobs. It is not that white-collar jobs are not needed; it is just that blue-collar jobs make the world work like it should. The author wrote “The zombie apocalypse is a white-collar nightmare: a world with no need for the skills we have developed. Lawyers, journalists, investment bankers—they are liabilities, not leaders, in the zombie-infested world. (The exception to this rule, of course, is doctors.)” (Bosch). While white-collar workers claim to make a more decent living, their lack of skills is immense when compared to your local auto mechanic.
The Walking Dead has the viewer rooting for the underdog. Humans have always rooted for the underdog. To beat the odds in survive in this post-apocalyptic world is amazing. The author wrote, “For blue-collar workers, the zombie stories are tales of comeuppance, of triumph: skills in auto maintenance, farming, plumbing, and electrical work—not to mention marksmanship—land blue-collar folks at the top of the new social order. This is not a bad thing, but it's nevertheless deeply disorienting to anyone who thought a college degree would mean never having to fix a generator.” (Bosch)
A lot of white-collar workers lack the necessary skills to fix a car or get a generator running. They rely on other blue-collar workers to fix it for them. They enjoy a life of luxury as long as they can afford it. Dirty work is foreign and is unknown to these people. They have created their own little world inside of a dirty and hard-working world that