Suckers, Slaves and Zombies
EXCELLENT PIECE FOR THOSE OF A MIND TO THINK:
Zombie Revolution
What percentage of mankind are jonesing to be zombies?
Well, let’s see:
Think how many opportunities “we” — the universal we; I don’t mean every reader of this blogpost or its author) — how many opportunities “we” seize to divest ourselves of responsibility for thinking for ourselves:
* Some give their lives to God, allowing the Bible, the Koran, a guru, the tarot, or a funny-colored crystal to think for them.
* Some rigidly follow an injudiciously chosen creed, doctrine, or ideology wherever it leads.
* A great many learn what they believe from their parents — either slavish devotion to their familial beliefs, or childish rebellion against.
* Others succumb to peer pressure, doing and believing whatever their friends do and believe.
* Many blindly obey the law without ever thinking, “What if the law is wrong?” They are the “good Germans.”
* Millions emulate celebrities.
* Tens of millions accept the worldview given us by CBS, Fox News, TV Land, or Lifetime.
* An unknown but very large number mold their lives to resemble the fictional escapades of movie heroes, sitcom stars, rap lyrics, or videogame characters.
* And many abdicate even the pitiful responsibilty of playing Follow the Leader by living drunken, drugged, dissolute lives — “out on a leave of absence from any resemblance to reality,” as John Hiatt put it in “the Tiki Bar Is Open.”
The author, Dafydd ab Hugh, is right, you know: any number of people the reader comes in contact with on a day-to-day basis fit into one of the above catagories–or several, if they’re the type that is afraid that one master isn’t enough.
Depressing, if only because it’s evident that all the time it was supposed that the PC-loving, nanny state-supporting, Nazi jackboot-stomping members of society were just misguided suckers on a power trip. Or their poor victims.
Now it’s realized that they are just a small part of human normality?
Will there come a day when the words on the Statue of Liberty are changed from “Give me you tiredyour pooryou hunddled masses yearning to breath free?” to “Come All You Zombies”?
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