It’s amazing how far some people will go to create imaginary scenarios in which the Undead are the bad guys.

Even when, typically, it’s the Living in those same scenarios, who, by any reasonable standard are causing the trouble.

Case in point: the people who get trampled or hurt every holiday season jostling for scarce goodies. Won’t they be even worse in the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’?

Whatever your situation in a zombie outbreak, don’t count on looting needed food from the local mega-mart. An extensive analysis of injuries occurring in large crowds over the last several years found that from Boston to Beijing, people of all ages and walks of life actively participated in the deaths of their fellow man to accomplish their own often trivial objectives.

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If everyday citizens are killing one another just to get a better price on a flat-screen television, imagine what ugly behaviors will surface when actual survival is at stake. The findings suggest that inadvertent human violence may well be a greater cause of death and destruction than any flesh-eating zombie or lunatic with a shotgun in the coming undead pandemic.

And this is the Zombies’ fault because….?

Just asking.

Call it the Romero Principle: ‘It’s never the Zombies that beat the Living in the Apocalypse. It’s always the Living.’

Sort of a parallel to ‘Evil will always triumph because Good is dumb’, only Zombies aren’t evil, Living people (obviously) aren’t inherently good, and the whole Apocalypse idea is what’s dumb.

Tags: Academia, Romero, Social Justice

This entry was posted by John Sears on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 at 9:25 pm and is filed under Zombie Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.