Blog of the living dead.

[davywavy]

There's a theory which says that the monsters in our stories are simply anthropomorphisations of those parts of ourselves and our environment which we fear, and the purpose in telling those stories is a way to control ourselves and our environment and to face our fears in a safe way.
The witch scares of the middle ages (and which still go on in some part of the world) were a way of finding a human agency to be responsible for accidents and disasters in an uncontrollable world. The Martian Invasion films of the 1950's and 1960's were a way of representating fears of Reds Under the Bed.
In the 1980's and 1990's, vampires (of the traditional, Bram Stoker sort (not the friendly modern sparkly sort)) were the monster of pop culture choice. However, in the last decade zombies have become the ascendant supernatural threat. Perhaps this represents a comtemporary social fear that we're all becoming mindless drones in a society in which individuality counts for nothing, or something.

Anyway, it's amazing how pervasive ideas contained within entertainment media can be. Studies showed that people were more than three times as likely to believe in the likelihood of catastrophic climate change after watching Eco-Thriller The Day After Tomorrow, and that was quite astonishing cobblers.
In the same light, it never ceases to surprise me how many of my friends have zombie-apocalypse survival plans. You know, just in case.

So; question for the day. Do you have a zombie survival plan, just in case? If, on the morrow, the dead start rising from their graves and feasting on the flesh of the living, what will you do?

Comments

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

No specific zombie plans, though my wife and I agreed a number of safe meeting places in the case of disaster bringing down the communication networks (afetr we had a nightmare getting in touch on the 7th of July 05), though we do need to modernise these plans.

I think in case of zombie invasion I'd head for the surrey hills, there are a number of isolated farmhouses and a couple of old secure towers there that would be easy to defend against the walking dead for at least some time.

I do have a friend in Australia who has a full kit including ropes, armour, rations, swords and crossbow.

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

Crossbow? Great for survival/hunting but poor as a missile weapon against the hordes of the dead surely...?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

So much for severing the head or destroying the brain, eh?

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

It's more a ranged weapon to hold off other people until he can get his hands on a firearm as I recall. The swords were more for zombie killin'.