Welcome back to Circa 1945: Breaking the Machine.

After last week’s episode — one of the heaviest I’ve ever made — I want to shift into something gentler. Not emotionally gentle, necessarily, but structurally gentle.

Sometimes the best way to understand the machinery of violence…

is to look at a fictional world where that machinery has already won.

Today’s parable comes from a horror movie.

A gory, campy, vampire-apocalypse movie that, somehow, has one of the most hopeful endings I’ve ever seen.

It’s called Daybreakers.

And underneath all the blood and fire, it tells a story about scarcity, collapse…

and cure.

Image Source: ⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daybreakers⁠