It's certainly not a trivial issue- a real-life zombie apocalypse would be even scarier than that scene in Howard the Duck when Jeffery Jones stuck his Dark-Overlord-tongue out in the truck.
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| Or this scene where Marty McFly's mom tried to do it...with a duck. You know, it's amazing that that this movie didn't wipe Hollywood out of existence |
Whether or not a zombie outbreak will ever happen, there is one thing that is certain- the recent outbreak of crazy people doing crazy things (and the connect-the-dots reporting that basically linked any weird act involving blood and/or human dismemberment to zombie-ism), simply reaffirms the universal truth that people who are encountered with life events (from boring mundaneness to the Canadian gay-porn-star-dissecting-necrophiliac) will use their worldview to help those events to make sense- or at least to fit into some sort of manageable category. Also, it shows some interesting things about the power of media to influence perceptions- or at least how they attempt to influence perceptions by laying the bread crumb trail down, down the rabbit hole. And for those of you scoring at home, I have now referenced the Pied Piper, Hansel and Gretel, Alice in Wonderland, and Howard the Duck, all in the same blog post. Boom.
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| Pictured: A boom. |
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