This fantasy is everywhere. It's embedded in the subconscious of both children and full-grown adults. Every time I walk into a bookstore, I see dozens upon dozens of books poignantly riding the zombie trend, larger in number each time I enter and slowly consuming the bookstore shelves one shelf at a time. Movie theaters too. And game shops.
As Roger once said in the original Dawn of the Dead, while flying in a chopper over a landscape strewn with reanimated corpses, "Jesus, it's everywhere."
Stewing in people's minds, this fantasy seems to grow more and more momentous as science and technology advance. Some folks are just waiting for the day when they can lock and load. To them, humanity is on the brink of crossing over and creating a Walking Dead scenario for real, and their bullets are just collecting dust for the time being.
To that I say, "Too late."
Have you been out shopping lately? Have you been out driving? Have you been out in crowded places at all? Yeah sure, unless you're Jeffrey Dahmer, there aren't too many of us who cannibalize each other, but the zombies are there. This so-called zombie apocalypse is just a reflection of human mob mentality. That's all it is.
The few people able to think critically and fend for themselves are the hold-outs in a swarm of comatose consumer addicts - a small band of survivors rallied around a burst of thought, struggling to stay afloat in a mass sea of brain dead, bumbling idiots.
The zombie-making machine was mass-marketing.
Today, many kids are programmed to think and respond according to what sales pitches and flashing illuminations on LCD screens tell them to think and respond to. They're a collective group of whiny, easily hurt dolts that compare their lives to cartoon characters as a basis for creating that fantasy of what "life" should be like in their heads. Puffing their chests like Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, these oafs strut out into the world with an intention to conquer it and buy shit, typically failing in that quest and succumbing to heavy duty nervous breakdowns until their beloved teevee steps in to save them... with its soft, caressing glow and warm appreciation of their talents. It doesn't judge them. It shows them people who are worse than they are and acts as a greedy life coach with one hand perpetually stuck in these kids' wallets.
The website for the Center for Disease Control overloaded when they tried to increase traffic by posting articles about zombie outbreaks. You really want zombies?
Take a look around. That fantasy has already been actualized. We just haven't seen it because it wasn't a chemical interaction that turned normal folks into cannibalizing monsters. Instead, it was our ignorance of our own technologies that devoured our brains. Reality has been zombified, and the few people who can wake up, look around, and realize the world works in a completely different manner from what they originally thought are the last remaining hope for a human society that advances again - one that steps forward into the future with bright ideas and newer understanding of our universe.
Whatever happened to space exploration and discovery of the darkest recesses of our oceans? Primetime television and Memorial Day Weekend Sales happened. Space can go fuck itself if it's going to get in the way of all that reduced price furniture on sale this past weekend.
-Doktor nOnsensical out-
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