tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post2075643749457238621..comments2024-03-29T05:41:35.119-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Light Bedside Reading; the Zombie ApocalypseFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-18567968633749127552013-07-10T11:21:32.913-07:002013-07-10T11:21:32.913-07:00I saw the movie. Except the biting part it really ...I saw the movie. Except the biting part it really seems closed to the apocalypse we can only imagine which took place in the Americas. <br />Viewed from this angle it really is scary.<br /><br />PS. Do not take your boy to see it. teonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-12270892224342115492013-07-03T13:09:59.064-07:002013-07-03T13:09:59.064-07:00teo: I don't know if you could write a single ...teo: I don't know if you could write a single book about the tragedy of the people that Canada calls the "First Nations", but perhaps nothing seems as comparable to a fictional zombie apocalypse as the horrific spread of infectious diseases through the native peoples in the next two centuries after 1492. It's hard to be sure, but it must rank with the Black Death of Europe's 14th Century as one of humanity's two most terrifying disasters.<br /><br />I do know that almost every white man who arrived in the Pacific Northwest talks of finding abandoned native towns and villages where the people had died in such numbers that the few survivors simply fled. Jared Diamond talks about how one of the main reasons that the European conquest of the Americas was possible is that many of the native societies were already devastated by epidemic diseases before the white boys showed up with powder and steel...FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-10226514200347216232013-07-03T13:03:01.801-07:002013-07-03T13:03:01.801-07:00Guys, guys...
I can't believe you would be sk...Guys, guys...<br /><br />I can't believe you would be skeptical of the notion of animated corpses shuffling across the country destroying and rending everything they encounter, savaging their former fellow humans, as they satisfy their mindless insatiable hungers. To see them all you have to do is turn on the television or open a newspaper!<br /><br />They're called "Republicans".FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-79038460979438564592013-07-03T05:41:54.290-07:002013-07-03T05:41:54.290-07:00Zombies can not work. But a normal pandemics with ...Zombies can not work. But a normal pandemics with a very large mortality rate does not make a good story.<br />Monsters running after a good looking guy and his female companion makes people interested. Story involving girl dieing of Ebola has a very limited heroic potential. You can't punch germs and save the girl. There is nothing to see.<br /><br />Reality is far more lethal then films but far less spectacular. <br />American continent went through a similar case, real version. A cocktail of diseases from the Old World killed something like 90% - maybe more - of the population.<br />There was nothing a brave hero could do to save his family. Just hope and pray that his beloved will be Darwinian survivals in the eternal fight between humans and germs.<br />Try making a film/write book about this and get more then a few tens of thousand of people interested worldwide. It has been done.<br />like : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus<br />But we are not having a discussion about a real pandemic but a fantasy one with zombies trying to chew on Brad's significant one.<br />Number of people interested in one type of story is 1000 times larger than the others audience. <br />I think that is all the story behind zombie fantasies.<br /><br /><br />teonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-86166567011228639032013-07-02T19:39:01.515-07:002013-07-02T19:39:01.515-07:00Cracked did a really good article on why zombies w...Cracked did a really good article on why zombies wouldn't work (http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html) aside from the fact that we have really shitty teeth and nails for clawing through anything tougher than cardboard armour.Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15715768191516712688noreply@blogger.com