The Walking Dead and the Presence of Evil in the World

It is interesting to see the workings of a fallen society within the world of the Walking Dead. There are no more institutions, either civil government or the Church, and therefore people are left to fend for themselves. The series illustrates the veneer that is civil society; remove the societal constraints of government and the Church and people descend back into their fallen natures.

This is illustrated particularly well by the city of Woodbury. It was ruled by the seeminly benevolent “Gov...