Hapless Zombies

Annmarie Throckmorton, M.A.
16 hours ago
1 min read

Zombie movies are a monstrous depopulation tool: zombie movies are designed to desensitize us to people who are sick so that we won't help them in an epidemic. These images of killing Zombies subliminally suggests that we should kill the sick to get the herd culled of dangerous sick people. We used to help people who are ill, now we shun them. Are we headed toward killing them?

So sad. I cannot walk around the warehouse that is a Walmart Supercenter, so I ride an electric cart when I shop there. If I tried to walk there I would probably look zombie-ish. After all the news that I have seen of violence in public places, including at Walmarts across the country, I am afraid, especially to be alone in the parking lot while loading heavy groceries into my car. So I alway ask for a clerk to help me (I think that they are called associates nowadays); to come out to the parking lot with me, and to load my groceries into my car. It takes them a minute to come help me and so I park the electric card on the side of the exit aisle. As I wait there I have noticed many times how awkward and ungainly the gait of most people has become. Young and old, everyone is walking like a Zombie-soon-to-be. So sad.

Hapless Zombies