Really, sometimes our adversaries in the Anti-Zombie Movement are just childish.

Case in point: equating Undeath with the common boredom and dissatisfaction of adulthood:

In his 1982 hit, Jack and Diane, John Mellencamp captures the allure, terror, and truth of the modern zombie in a single line:

“Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone.”

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With the protective veil of youth removed, we recognize the long road stretching out before us for what it is: repetitious action – wake up, go to work, eat dinner, sleep. We become office Zombies, or Zombies to a dead relationship, or bills, or illness, or our children.

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You think you’ve got it bad? You think it’s too late for you? Its too late for THEM. They don’t have a choice in the matter.

First of all, let’s take a moment to feel deep, deep pity for people who look at all the opportunities and chances adulthood offers and see only a grinding, meaningless existence that has to be made better by comparison to something they despise.

It must be so sad in the Anti-Zombie Movement.

Second, I love how they compare children to bills and illness. These people must make excellent parents.

But most of all, I can’t understand their theory here. Undeath is akin to a boring and mundane existence? What part of *coming back from the dead*, profoundly transformed, animate and yet not conventionally alive is boring? Why wouldn’t one find a ‘thrill’ in that?

Honestly, how jaded can a person be?

This particular post reads like a grade schooler aghast at the thought of life without recess. Yes, little Anti-Zombie ‘researcher’, Unlife might not have the particular pleasures you’re so addicted to, but if you open your mind just a little you might find other thrills to consider.

And no, I’m not talking about gnawing on skulls either. Yeesh you people are fixated. Is there a Freudian interpretation for the brain-eating obsession?

There should be. I’ll work on that.

Tags: Don't Use the Zed Word, Journamalism

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