Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Apocalypse..... NOW!

So why does a zombie apocalypse seem to appeal to so many? Good ol’ fashioned American violence.
It always starts so innocently.
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It’s the triumph of good over evil. Action movies have been a staple of Hollywood fare since the beginning of the film industry. Back in the days of the spaghetti western, the good guys always wore white and the bad guys always wore black.

Evil personified.
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Pretty cut and dry, right? As the years progressed, our villains changed. During the 80s, it was the Russians. Nowadays, it’s Arab terrorists.

Certainly not this clean-cut fellow.
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But with everyone wanting to be politically correct and not hurt anyone's feelings, our list of bad guys is next to nil. In come the zombies. It’s hard to feel bad or offended by a moldering ghoul that is trying to eat your sweet, gooey grey matter.
They are anonymous walking putrid's that you can fill with lead, all guilt free! There has yet a group of people coming to your neighborhood carrying “Save the Zombies” signs. Yet.
Maybe I spoke too soon.
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On a base level, humans are horrible beings. We love to lie, cheat, and steal as well as kill one another. A zombie apocalypse offers us a guilt free murder spree, unleashing hell upon the newly dead denizens. After all, that’s why we have games like Grand Theft Auto.
Therapy.
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It doesn't have to be a zombie apocalypse either. Humans just love ‘em period. As nice and cushy as our lives have become, they somehow lack any real challenges. What sounds more appealing, going to work in a retail environment, listening to baseless complaints from people with too much time on their hands, or fighting for survival in a lawless world having only yourself to answer to and a zombified version of your boss in the cross-hairs of your hunting rifle?
"This'll teach you not to call HR on me!"
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A lawless world always seems appealing at first, until we realize that we all can’t hole up inside a Walmart forever. Some people like Matt Mogk and Max Brooks have taken a decidedly more serious look at the realities of such an end of days. “It’s Hurricane Katrina. It’s neighbors knifing each other for food, women being raped, the cops not showing up, children dying of starvation, an old lady dying in a wheelchair.” Brooks said in a New York Times Interview. (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/max-brooks-is-not-kidding-about-the-zombie-apocalypse.html?_r=0) Mogk runs a website and organization called the zombie research society, (http://zombieresearchsociety.com/) And looks at the event of a zombie outbreak in real world terms and develops real word stratigies for survival.

               
All in all, the zombie apocalypse is just a fun fantasy to have day dreams about when you should be focusing on a real exploratory blog for your ENG121 professor.

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