Good post - could use a little editing but great concept and high marks for style and structure.

I think that this fits well with several operating metaphors in 21st century America:

Both the vampire and now the zombie have been predominant in american pop culture.

Both are forms of the undead.

Perfect metaphors for late stage capital failure America - essentially we are dead and we don't even known it or using your locution we pretend to be alive and that everything's normal when the fact of the matter iz that we - our system and way of life - are already dead.

Bravo!