Thanks to u/ElGosso for pointing this out in my previous thread: https://hexbear.net/post/149833 .

This provides more background and further explains why I find much of late-stage decline western "art" (especially anglo) so lazy, always favoring misanthropic violence as the natural condition of humanity.

This is not the first time a western zombie story projects the wretched logic of settler regimes and colonialists onto the rest of humanity. In "world war z" you literally get to kill "zombies" storming occupied Jerusalem.

What I mean is that these stories are little more than a reproduction of the typical anglo war criminal logic: "we must commit some of the worst crimes against humanity in perpetuity, otherwise the bad guys would come get us; humanity is evil, we are the good guys holding it together even if we commit atrocities". It's barely more than the war crimes-friendly narrative that "both sides" are bad at best, or that "one side is slightly better so we must support it" at worst (always the side that regurgitates the logic of western war propagandists).

Notice the "othering" of the threats in these stories (again, the logic of settlers and colonialists), which is explained by western regimes' reluctance to allow any justification for western societies to revolt against their real oppressors who look exactly like them, their own regimes.

Mass war propaganda has decimated the very concept of "art" in these societies. "Art" in western regimes has become barely more than the process of whitewashing a regime forced mainstream media narrative with some makeup and fictitious "nuance" (e.g. some "bad guy" accepting that the "good guy" with the settler worldview has a point; just a made-up circlejerk).