Zombies, Corona and Fear of Death

From “The Walking Dead” to “Black Mirror” to “The Handmaid’s Tale”, our appetite for all things dystopian seems to know no limits. Drawn to every imaginable dark possibility for humanity seems to have found rich soil in our collective imagination. It’s not unprecedented, to be sure. Our fascination with our shared demise has long been part of our social fabric but we have literally made it an art-form in recent years.

I have to acknowledge my own fascination with the genre. Even a decade in...