Are you all just zombies? If aliens decided to colonize our world, would they eliminate us because of our swarming, mindless, bloodthirsty, simplistically over-reactive behavior? I bet they would.
In Haiti, article #246 of the penal code states that you’re not allowed to make a zombie out of another person; I wish American corporations were beholden to a similar restriction. Voodoo punishment, which punishes delinquents through zombification, paradoxically keeps members of society in line with societal norms. If a person steps out of bounds, they are bombarded with natural neurotoxin in a primitive lobotomy to zombify the individual.
In “Zombi”, one of the first of the modern zombie genre films, the Haitian voodoo goes viral.
Expanding on this theme, George A. Romero capitalized on the alien fever of the mid 1900’s and created a terrifying genre of zombie films that relied on an unknown, or ambiguous, source of walking undead outbreak. Slow walking sociopaths who feed on the flesh and brains of the living, much like the mindless, mallrat consumers of modern America. Not only a horror film, “Night of the Living Dead” kicked off a series that was as much social commentary as nail-biting good time.
Free thought is destroyed by the shared, sociopathic subconscious in the zombie-infested world. They reject individuality in support of conventionalist cannibalism. If you think we’re not zombies, think again.
Impervious to shrapnel, zombies require a head shot or conflagration. If their flesh-rot is slowed by the virus then winter will only slow them down. If not, hunker down and wait it out. If they survive the sea then watch the coast; you never know what cannibalistic corpse will wash up on the shore.
Some say that zombies are only slow-moving. Others acknowledge developments in genetic engineering and argue that fast-moving freaks are just as likely as lethargic, livid dead. I say they’re all zombies because they’re all too human.
There are so many zombie movies that it’s hard to categorize them all under the same umbrella. The fear of an entire population being turned into blood thirsty, moronic mutants is all too real for those of us who appreciate the potential of the individual and who decry the critical mass of conventionalist cannibals who have overrun our society. They satiate their thirst for blood by turning on the daily news and they feed on the pain and suffering of their own unnamed countrymen who are infected by the fever of foreign war. Go to the mall or a university and you’ll find more zombies than you can handle.
Head over to Marist college and you’ll find pretentious, parasitic professors pedagogically preying on pedantic pupils. Turn on the news and marvel at the malicious malady that is modern media. Be infected by insidious institutions surrounding us all or the viral videos infesting your once-conscious mind. I, Zombie; you, food.
