the walking dead is about love

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for me, the walking dead is inarguably about love and compassion and about how the current system just Does Not Work if our goals in life is for love and compassion. the show constantly talks about and asks "What Comes After?" What comes after we kill all our enemies? What comes after we build a perfect society? What comes after the war to do so? What comes after the hardships that prevent or try to collapse our goals? What comes after we achieve a 'good enough' spot in our goals? the show is very explicitly (even moreso outright in the later seasons) about its central anti-capitalist themes (the comics also have it more explicitly shown at times) trying not to spoil it but the show tries to demonstrate again and again and again that we cant look to the past to try to recreate some idealized version of it that was never there in the first place, but that we need to move onto What Comes After that, and onto a future that is built upon foundations other than pointless divisions and extractions of wealth from people, a society that actually functions and serves to provide for its people and for the people that comes after us What Comes After we all die? are we going to let our kids inherit a future worse off than the bullshit we inherited? the people in the apocalypse moreso? or are we going to try to build some semblance of a world that tried to make it better off than how we found it or better off than the ones we and our kids are going to be born into?