Anyone Besides Me sick Of This "Zombie Apocalypse"

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I think anyone who really thinks zombies exist and that there will be a pandemic of some zombie virus or whatever, or are not serious about it but so heavily into the fad, is completely stupid and annoying. Of course, for some reason they think they will somehow not get turned, only everyone else will, and it will be up to them to save the human race. Yeah right. I'd love to see people who get queasy at the sight of blood or frightened of a spider try to take on a horde of putrid, rotting, festering, animated human corpses. I don't even like video games where you attack zombies (except for Plants vs. Zombies), I think it's the biggest most unoriginal cliche ever, and as for movies and TV shows about it, forget it! I'm supposed to be overly obsessed with weird things because I have Asperger's and this is what "normal", NT people are fascinated with? HA!

Does anyone else here think the whole thing is a stupid fad that they hope will soon go away, or are they actually obsessed with or even believe in a Zombie Apocalypse? If you are the latter, you need not reply.

It's a good point. It's like wrestling. I mean - whaaat?

I think they're could be an aspie apocalypse...

One thing I notice about these Zombie things like "Walking Dead", its not just Zombies you have to kill, its other Humans that are also the enemy.

The paranoid conspiracy part of me wonders if we are getting all this Zombie stuff as a vehicle to pre-program us to not trust other humans and kill them instead of what people should do, which is everyone help each other to rebuild civilisation.

If there is a financial crash comming, I imagine the powers that be wouldnt like us all getting together and becoming more powerfull than they.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrilege

Im going to go and watch this week's episode of the walking dead to recover.

For decades there was a cult following, but JUST a cult following, for the George Romero "Living Dead" movies. Then within the last couple years it suddenly went mainstream. Middleschool girls are still into male vampires. But EVERY one is into the living dead stuff. And its burned me out already.

I like zombie movies and series, and I'm completely hooked on Walking Dead. I can't wait for season 4.

In the event that our civilization did fall... I think it's very realistic that other people will be more of a threat and competitors of the scarce resources than someone to cooperate with. The fall of civilized society would also mean that women's lives would be much harder and more dangerous. People would be a threat in so many ways!
Some might try to get together, but I think there will be far more rivaling groups and fighting. In a real life or death scenario you're gonna prioritize your loved ones by any means necessary.
Over a very long period of time civilization might be built up again, but that is a long way from the fall of it.

The only zombie movie I watched was the original Night Of The Living Dead. I liked it but think the these other zombie stuff I'd seen trailers for & bits & pieces of is stupid & some are an even stupider excuse for a teen drama. I'm thinking about using Zombie Pepper Spray on self proclaimed zombies. http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Pepper-Spr ... pper+spray

I tend to buy food in bulk. One day I went to the local supermarket and bought 125 cans of Chef Boyardee spaghetti & meatballs and raviolis. The clerk asked me if I was preparing for a zombie apocalypse. I just told her no.

Unlike a high school teacher who cooks meth, zombies are a simple concept to which nobody owns the copyright. So maybe it's inevitable that a successful TV show would inspire a shambling horde of imitators and ripoffs. I just saw a zombie in an insurance commercial, which I dearly hope is a sign that the fad is on the wane.

I thought it was real cool when I saw a zombie commercial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU0cQRCXFIk

There are people who really believe zombies exist?

Of course not! It's just a fun thought game. What would you do if... How to survive if... It's just for fun.

The whole zombie fad is completely played out. I've gone over and over it in my head and I just can't come up with a way it can realistically work. The closest thing to plausible is the rage virus from 28 days/weeks later, but even that one is a stretch.

I have though been looking around general society, and I actually think that the "zombie apocalypse" is in full swing at this moment. Just look at all the people sucked in to their smart phones, they can't even cross the street without texting. Then everywhere you go in (the US at least) a vast majority of the populous is stupefied by complete media overload. At all times people need some kind of "entertainment" blasting into their brains. So few actually sit down and appreciate the physical world in front of their face. It's the plague of the 21st century.

Course you know what it says in the Bible about the End Times? :-

Daniel 12 v 2 "There are many who are dead and buried.[a] Some of them will wake up and live forever,"

The Satanists that run this world are expecting such and preparing:-
" The security firm HALO Corp, which already sounds like something out of zombie fiction, announced it will conduct zombie-apocalypse training exercises for about 1,000 military personnel, police officials, medical experts, and federal workers during an annual counter-terrorism summit. The scenario, as reported by Military Times, will even include immersive Hollywood sets and zombies roaming an island, harassing troops and medical responders.

Until now, I never thought, that there would be actually people thinking of "real" zombies existing, so as well I didnt thought of people existing, that a Zombie Apokalypse could happen. ^^

The thing with the zombies in video games, is the same as why androids or aliens get favored. Its simply about the age-recommendations, that the games gets. Beat the crap out of an "human" in an videogame: No advertesiment allowed or games-magazines are forced to do extra special editions that can be bought separately. Beat the crap out of an zombie or alien: Age recommendation 12-16, advertisiments allowed, no special needs for gaming magazines.

I dont know, how earnest I should think about it, but I as well read an political article, that reasoned, that the actual zombie hype is as well caused to increasing crisis about wealth in the world. So the zombies shall be a comparison and cause on purpose fear in middle and higher class people for a "horde of unintellectual and brainless mass", that if allowed to revolt, by doing so would destroy human civilisation, art, ... that is in the oppinion of the wealthier ones caused on them, and will leave only destruction behind them, if they will not be controlled properly.

I do understand the comparison, can as well agree that maybe the actual crisis around the world, make such "end of the world/catastrophe" films more likely, but I dont think that this is done by an political party on purpose. Its statistical approved, that people tend in crisis situations, to ignore the actual situation, while inactively their brain is active about the topic, and so seek sideways to to so by books, novels, films... So the time of cold war and cuba crisis, when atomar war seems to have been likely, was as well a time when lots of such films were released. (Mad Max, Blade Runner, ...)

Actually the word "zombie" is miss used.

When George Romero started the Living Dead Franchise of movies his movie characters called the shambling creatures "walking dead", or "living dead".Not "zombies".

Then viewers and critics labeled the creatures "zombies", and the name stuck.

The original zombie belief came from Haitain voodoo religion.

PBS had a show examing the zombie belief in Haiti, and actually had a rural Haitian family whos young adult son lived with them as 'a zombie'. So I got to see an actual real "zombie" on TV!

This 'zombie' was a nice looking young black guy (no decaying flesh) who just acted kinda a little odd- and never spoke. Other than that he just hung out in the living room with the family like anyone else ( kind of dissappointing to learn that real 'zombies' are so boring).

The real 19 years old son had died in a motorcycle crash years earlier. But later nieghbors informed them that "your son has come back to life as a zombie, and is loitering on the edge of town". So the family rescued him, and he now lives with them as this 'zombie'.

The PBS crew did a DNA test to see if the zombie was really related to the family. It came up negative- he could not have really been their lost son. Apparently this 'zombie' was a mentally ill vagrant wanderer who turned up at the edge of the village, and resembled the family's lost son. The family got the emotional void filled by adopting him, and he now has a roof over his head. So it worked out fine for all parties. So belief in zombies had a positive effect as a social safety net in this case.