Lilani said:
Zombies, and the zombie apocalypse in general. They're cool in The Walking Dead and all, but REALLY living in a world with no comforts and a slim chance of survival would just suck in ways us soft, spoiled first world country dwellers cannot even comprehend. Then there's the guilt that comes with knowing they were all people once, and knowing that even if you die protecting someone they might not be safe from you, and they may be forced to live with the guilt of putting you down.
Just...so much suck, and so much fear.
A zombie apocalypse would be an irresponsible relief, because we would no longer be responsible for the fate of the world. Regardless of the optimistic "repopulate the human race" tone frequently taken in zombie mythology, an actual zombie apocalypse would destroy human civilization.
The hope for a "natural disaster" like zombies is so that humans have something else to blame for the world's troubles. So it's not my own over-consumption of resources fueling global warming that's the problem - it's zombies. It's not my unwillingness to stop corporations and governments from causing death and misery in the world that's the problem - it's zombies. Zombies are the Fall Guy so that wealthy humans instead of killing and dominating poor brown-skinned people from the Middle East can feel good about "blowing the head off" of zombies.
Dick Cheney already feels good about "saving Western civilization from the forces of darkness" - just think how good he'd feel if he was ACTUALLY saving humans from zombies.
Just think how good all the arms manufacturers would feel. Instead of selling arms so that a wealthy country can more fully dominate a poor one, arms manufacturers can go on TV and promote themselves - step right up and get your weapon of choice, the more zombie-murder the better! No more gun control! Guns for all!
Militiamen in the United States twiddling their thumbs waiting for the Uprising can finally pull their heads out of their asses and smile - finally a reason for their existence - zombie murder!
Zombies aren't a problem, they're a solution to the problems that wealthy people have. Imagine if Palestinians could be transformed into zombies. Zionists could then murder them without the international community being bothered by it. Imagine if poor people in the United States could be transformed into zombies. Now instead of the Koch brothers funding the Tea Party they could just fund militias to hunt down and murder all the people they wanted to murder previously but couldn't get away with.
Imagine if Trayvon Martin was a zombie. Now George Zimmerman can kill him and instead of having legal troubles would enjoy a pint at the local bar with friends afterward.
Zombies are a dream, a fantasy, a desire, that wealthy people have for what they hope poor people become. Right now they have to pretend the genocide in the Congo doesn't exist - how much better would it be if the genocide was celebrated the world over because the victims were zombies?
Do you think Rupert Murdoch likes being the Star Wars Emperor? Don't you think he'd rather be the hero than the villain? Zombies are the solution.
Hitler dehumanized Jews, gypsies, and cripples - only in Hitler's greatest dreams could he begin by transforming Jews, gypsies, and cripples into zombies, so that the world would applaud as he sent those "monsters" to the gas chamber.
Hurricane Katrina was a godsend for wealthy people, allowing them to "cleanse" the city of poor black people - a zombie apocalypse would be Hurricane Katrina on a global scale, allowing the "humans", by which is meant wealthy people, to cleanse the entire world of "zombies", by which is meant poor people.
To "repopulate the human race" one must first begin by killing everything that isn't human. Who decides who is and who is not human? Who has the capabilities to transform poor people into zombies?
