Zombie craze indicative of societal sickness
Lewis DiuguidIt’s hard to imagine that a group exists called the Kansas Anti Zombie Militia.
These seem like folks who are watching too much TV or too many zombie movies. But The Kansas City Star reports that this group is serious about being prepared for the coming Zombie Apocalypse.
It has nothing to do with Gov. Sam Brownback and uber-conservatives deeping the already blood-red political color of the state. These folks actually believe that an apocalypse is coming with a pandemic spread by a virus that will create zombie-like symptoms.
Believe it. The group last month was on a Discovery Channel documentary.
That whole undead thing, however, may be a sense in our society that people are pulling away from each other. The loss of a sense of community and togetherness is leaving people feeling lifeless about themselves and certainly projecting it onto others.
It’s not a good sign when folks don’t feel the humanity in others. It makes it too easy for individuals to feel self-righteous and to do things to hurt other people.
The feeling may be behind the outrageous political rancor the inability to compromise and the rash of mass shootings taking place with gunmen failing to see the preciousness of the lives they are eliminating.
Jake White
4 months, 2 weeks agofaculty.history.wisc.edu/bernault/magical/comaroff%20text.pdf
Zombie scares really aren’t that uncommon in British settler colony societies, like the United States and South Africa. If anything, I’d say the political culprit is Kris Kobach, he seems to be more directly racist and hateful than Brownback, at least openly, and towards Latin American immigrants in particular. The Comaroffs’ essay is very insightful, and worth reading to understand how unemployment, lack of oppurtunity, and immigration intermingle to create these zombie scares.
Rachel Elaine Hines
4 months, 2 weeks agoSince Kansas is also the state where activists are lobbying to have the schools teach only “creation science,” to wit, that the world was created in seven days by a divine being and is only 6,000 years old despite reams of scientific evidence disproving this fact … I don’t find it too much of a reach that some other Kansans think zombies are real. They probably think pro wrestling is, too.
Mark Hastert
4 months, 2 weeks agoOf course zombies are for real. The Kansas legislature is full of ‘em.
JR Beillenhouser
4 months, 2 weeks agoSpoken by 4 ObamaZombies.
LOL
Kent Mueller
4 months, 2 weeks agoHow in the world did the left make zombies a political issue? A gutter was spotted and they all ran and jumped in.
Jack Larson
4 months, 2 weeks agoWhat do you think of Zombie Family Portraits?