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A few days ago on Facebook I ranted about the whole "Zombie Apocalypse" jokes springing up in the wake of the Miami cannibal incident. In the days since then it's gotten so bad that Cracked have had to step up and call out the stupid.
I have said it before and I'll say it again. What does it say about us that a comedy website has become the gatekeeper of reason in our society? Then again, I suppose satirists have always had that unlucky job.
I agree with the points Cracked makes. Here's another thing I'll say before I post no more on the subject: the "zombie apocalypse" crap doesn't just demean the crimes due to their insensitivity. They demean them because the people doing them are actually worse than zombies. Zombies, apart from being fictional, are mindless brutes who don't know any better. These are thinking, reasoning human beings who have descended into drug use which has destroyed their reality to the point that they are capable of terrifying things. That to me is far more disturbing than disposable, faceless enemies from a horror movie.
It was probably about five or six years ago now but at a local drug store where I live a shop lifter viciously bit a security guard who tried to restrain him. It was noteworthy because the attacker was supposedly HIV positive. (He was said to have been gleefully yelling "I have AIDS! I have AIDS!" as the police arrested him.) As I recall the poor guard thankfully tested negative. But no, people, keep carrying on about zombies. That's where the real problems are.
I have said it before and I'll say it again. What does it say about us that a comedy website has become the gatekeeper of reason in our society? Then again, I suppose satirists have always had that unlucky job.
I agree with the points Cracked makes. Here's another thing I'll say before I post no more on the subject: the "zombie apocalypse" crap doesn't just demean the crimes due to their insensitivity. They demean them because the people doing them are actually worse than zombies. Zombies, apart from being fictional, are mindless brutes who don't know any better. These are thinking, reasoning human beings who have descended into drug use which has destroyed their reality to the point that they are capable of terrifying things. That to me is far more disturbing than disposable, faceless enemies from a horror movie.
It was probably about five or six years ago now but at a local drug store where I live a shop lifter viciously bit a security guard who tried to restrain him. It was noteworthy because the attacker was supposedly HIV positive. (He was said to have been gleefully yelling "I have AIDS! I have AIDS!" as the police arrested him.) As I recall the poor guard thankfully tested negative. But no, people, keep carrying on about zombies. That's where the real problems are.
