MARK G POGUE
I WILL RISE UP THE DEAD AND THEY WILL EAT THE LIVING
EPIC OF GILAMESH
Last night I watched "Zombies: A Living History" I went in to the program thinking that it was just a history of the Zombie story. It was that and more. I did not expect the more. I keep on asking myself are they saying that the possibility of the dead coming back to a form of life and feeding on the living is true? As a matter of fact they where. But not in the way you think. How you ask? While many cultures have has their own legend of a Zombie it was Director George A. Romero 1968 movie "The Night of the Living Dead" that gave us the modern APOCALYPTIC Zombie. A mass invasion of the undead or the walking dead.
While I was learning about the Zombie History , I keep seeing references to disasters and wars in World History, but while some points they made went back hundreds of years, I was most horrified by accounts of events of the past 100 years. Since Romero's 1968 movie half of all the Zombie movies where made after 9/11/2001.
IT HAS GOTTEN TO THE POINT WHEN YOU TURN ON YOUR TV THAT EVERYTHING YOU SEE IS POTENTIALITY DISASTROUS!
MAX BROOKS, AUTHOR OF WORLD WAR Z
In viewing the documentary I also learned that there has been a long standing fear of the dead coming back to life. One example is this question. Why are coffins are bolted shut if the person inside is dead? Some countries use to bind the dead and put tight restraints around them. Some countries would put rocks in the mouth so the dead could not bite anyone if they came back to life. The reason for this is that zombies represents the worst fear of disease.That fear is still so true today that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued issued a Zombie Novella in order to teach emergency preparedness in 2011.
The days after 9/11 the Bush administration made it clear that the only way to stop a terrorist is to destroy it. and what do we know about zombies? The only way to stop a zombie is to destroy it.
In the past 12 years we have saw examples of civilization breaking down. 9/11 we keep it together because a country pulled together but we learned the enemy could hit us and maybe destroy us. Then Katrina stuck and it was a total break down from the police department on up. As Max Brooks said , we have a global war on terror ,we have global warming. Massive earth quakes, storms, tsunami etc. We have had other global disease epidemics like SARS, Mad Cow,West Nile Virus just to name a few.
These all represent a threat to the break down of civilization, plagues break down civilization. National disasters break down civilization. Zombie Apocalypse is the study of uncontrolled pandemonium and it is used for a model to teach Personal or emergency preparedness.
On Twitter I follow many Zombie fans including a group I am going to pay closer attention to a called Zombie Squad.
Their mission (From Web site)
Zombie Squad's mission is to educate the public about the importance of personal preparedness and self reliance, to increase its readiness to respond to a number of disasters such as Earthquakes, Floods or Zombie Outbreaks.
They are forming a community to teach people to be ready for anything. If your ready for Zombies your ready for anything.
It occurred to me while watching this that there is a growing sense of that the world as we know it is going to end. People are upset with the new standard of living with the great recession. People are not happy. People are stressed and restless.
But what about the government labs that store and create viruses? Could they ever make a mistake and harm the public?
Zombies are the worst fear of disease or uncontrolled civil pandemonium because a pathogen does not need tanks to do harm. When the public hears the word virus a panic starts, even though it is soon controlled. But what if control did not happen soon enough, and our governmental authority started to break down. The American people are so polarized and upset with the government it makes me ask the question: Could a massive uprising of the people be far off?
On a recent TV special years ago on the Super Volcano in Yellowstone Park a Representative from FEMA said there is no amount of preparedness that could make them ready for a full response. Is it possible that the recent attention from the media on Zombies is a teaching method to warn us and tell us to be prepared for anything?
Tell me: Are you ready for a Zombie Apocalypse? Or Anything that might come our way? Are you? Am I?
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