The Truth about Zombies

I’ve heard a lot of people say that they don’t get zombies.  That’s because it’s not the zombies themselves that are so horrifying.  It’s what these creatures represent:  chaos, anarchy, mass deaths, exoduses, feelings of helplessness, and the complete breakdown of society.  These are the same things that made H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds so scary. In his book, the Martians themselves aren’t scary.  What is scary is that they are agents for societal upheaval.  In fact, you hardly ever see the Martians.

You do, however, see zombies in zombie books and movies.  Millions of them, in fact.  But infinitely scarier than their putrescent, necrotic faces is the fact that they represent the beginning of the end of society as we know it.  The zombies will inherit the earth.  The rest of us have nowhere to go.  We’re all refugees now and running for our lives, looting stores, jacking cars, doing anything we can to stay alive one more day.  If that doesn’t scare you, you’re already one of the walking dead.