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The Walking Dead looks at life in a world devoid of society, structure, and order as we have come to accept. One could say it takes modern first-world people and puts them in a lawless, id-driven, Darwinist environment - but we learn it’s even more complicated than that. An entire lifetime of conditioning to societal conventions, hopes, morality, and respect have to be balanced and are in constant conflict with animalistic survivalism and a need to utilize natural, instinctive human skills. What we get is a profile of different people handling their new world in different ways. Some resort to violence, some strive to be conquerors, some try desperately to hold onto the humanity of their former selves, some fail to cope and fall, and some manage to recondition themselves, blending all those elements into a “new” brand of humanity.