Your poll bears little relation to your thread topic.
Anyway, Zombie Survival Guide only accounts for an infection-based zombie outbreak. What if it's a nuclear event, like Night of the Living Dead? How about a chemical catastrophe, like Return of the Living Dead? The folklore from which zombies originate implies a magical behavior - much like Evil Dead. Each zombie type means a different survival strategy. My point is that the Zombie Survival Guide is not to be taken seriously, and to memorize its teachings would likely be of little use in the extremely hypothetical situation of zombies, and not just because zombies are fictional.
It's the kind of pre-conceptualized nonsense that had everyone going crazy over Y2K, and even earlier during the Cold War. "What if?" questions bear the luxury of coin-toss probability. Since it might come true, it suddenly must be true. The more detailed you make the hypothetical truth, the more likely you are to be shocked or disappointed by the eventuality of the actual truth.
What if it turns out zombies are incredibly easy / impossible to kill? What if they can talk? What if they don't crave the flesh of the living? What if humans can't become zombies, but animals can? Until Max Brooks can look into his crystal ball and answer those "what if" questions, I find no reason to prepare anything based on his book.
Anyway, Zombie Survival Guide only accounts for an infection-based zombie outbreak. What if it's a nuclear event, like Night of the Living Dead? How about a chemical catastrophe, like Return of the Living Dead? The folklore from which zombies originate implies a magical behavior - much like Evil Dead. Each zombie type means a different survival strategy. My point is that the Zombie Survival Guide is not to be taken seriously, and to memorize its teachings would likely be of little use in the extremely hypothetical situation of zombies, and not just because zombies are fictional.
It's the kind of pre-conceptualized nonsense that had everyone going crazy over Y2K, and even earlier during the Cold War. "What if?" questions bear the luxury of coin-toss probability. Since it might come true, it suddenly must be true. The more detailed you make the hypothetical truth, the more likely you are to be shocked or disappointed by the eventuality of the actual truth.
What if it turns out zombies are incredibly easy / impossible to kill? What if they can talk? What if they don't crave the flesh of the living? What if humans can't become zombies, but animals can? Until Max Brooks can look into his crystal ball and answer those "what if" questions, I find no reason to prepare anything based on his book.
