Blogpost 4: Zombie Apocalypse as the End of the World

           You are walking alone on your way home in a dark alley on a rainy night with streetlights far away from each other, when suddenly you encountered a lump person moving towards you. You thought he was only begging for money, and you wanted to help him, you were about to approach him when suddenly he came sprinting towards you, you were shocked and unable to move as he draws closer and closer to you, when you got our of your senses and was about to run, this person grabbed your arm and bite it. You were struggling to get your hands away from him, you screamed really loud, when on a spur of moment.. you fell on the ground.
       






           
              I, myself have considered our generation living in an apocalyptic time, a generation that is plunged into watching movies about zombies like; Land of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Rise of the Dead, Zone of the Dead, the most recent zombie movie which is The World War Z, or even the most popular TV series of zombies which is the Walking Dead. And have you noticed that in earlier times zombies in movies walk slowly?  Well this is because it is believed that the zombies in movies represent us people, that before we have these technologies that makes our life easier got invented, we used to live a slow life or in other words our transportation before used to be so idle and our work gets done very slowly but because of the vast production of advanced technology our work gets done very quickly and a country from all across the globe can only be a 12 hour plane ride. Or for some they say that movies portray zombies as a pack of people who were resurrected from the dead that could end life here on earth.

          According to Daniel W. Drenzer; an author, he made theories of international politics and zombies said that "zombies only look like people but everything human about them was already taken away, they are living dead who eats on human flesh." 

          I have read an article by Eric Spitznagel talking about "George Romero's Theory of Zombies" that says that for us to understand zombies we have to know where they came from. So I've continued my research and I found out that our modern zombies came from the 1968 by the known director named George Romero who directed the movie Night of the Living Dead, and the one who re-write the book of zombies into an apocalyptic creature. And Romero's theory about the zombie apocalypse scared thousands of people in 1968 and after his movie being released many zombie films were created since September 11, 2001. But Romero isn't the one who invented the so-called creature, but was said to have existed the earth even before Romero knew about it. 

          In a Documentary film that I have watched from History Channel about the "History of Zombies" It was said that zombies first appeared in the earliest literature which was called the epic of Gilgamesh. From that literature it was mentioned that He will raise up the dead and they will eat the living, and the dead will out number the living. which made everyone aware since it sounds a lot like an apocalypse. For some articles it says that Zombies came from a voodoo religion in Africa  and was believed as a person who has their mind controlled and is working as a slave. But the voodoo zombie that was originated in Africa didn't stop there, it even ended up in Haiti which is very different from George Romero's zombie. It was mentioned from a documentary that I have watched that when we look back, we see that most of the civilizations are already afraid of people coming back from the dead. In China the living dead are called "Jiang Shi" which is said to be a terrible hungry ghost that returns to devour not only the living but its own family for not being perfectly burried. Because in China they make sure the corpse is buried perfectly to make sure that they wont come back to attack the living. Another zombie was In Arabia 7th century, that was believed that becoming a zombie was a punishment for the living and immoral life. The zombie in Arabia was called "Ghoul" which is believed as a female demon who lived a simple life but is a prostitute and some say that these demon would linger in the dessert to devour men and when it has its victim it turns again into a monster who will eat on its victim's flesh. But as further studies go on it was said that the zombies' most fearsome ancestor was found in Scandinavia in 8th century an undead viking who had a sensationable appetite for human flesh that was called as the "Draugr" who was the most savage zombie in a form of a night out to kill people and eat their flesh which was believed as a zombie who was very unstoppable. But the most closely zombie that was found in England at the 12th century was the zombie called "Revenant". And a man who wrote about the "revenant" was William of Newburgh he described the "Revenant" as hungry spirits was who feed on human flesh and are out there to finish the life of the  living. William of Newburgh wrote that "one would not easily believe that corpses come out of their graves unless there were many cases supported by ample testimony." So many people still continues his studies and his research were very important to the church at that time because they say that his studies would be the answer on how to wipe out these zombies, or what they call as the "Revenant". Many believed that civilization is close to collapse and that the end of the world is coming because there are this many pressing of ideas just waiting for the society to turn down. 

           There was this news that I have read in cbslocal.com in Miami last May 29, 2011 which alarmed a lot of people concerning the zombie apocalypse because of a homeless man whose face was viciously chewed off by a 31-year-old naked man in Florida.The news said that when the police arrived on the incident, they warned the man to stand back and stop what he was doing, but he still continued eating the other guy's face so the police was forced to fire a bullet but they said that they fired multiple gunshots when he refused to get off and continue what he was doing. The victiom on the other hand didn't died even though it was said that  "75 to 85 percent of his face was missing."

         My dad who was living in Miami for about 8 years now said that his friends in Miami was so horrified by the incident that they already prepared for the coming of the Zombie Apocalypse thinking that this news from 2011 could be the sign that the end is near.

         But who can blame them? Death is something that men have always feared, but what's more terrifying is when the dead comes back to life and become a zombie. And we are not only afraid of our death but the death of our own entire civilization. So when you're walking alone in a dark alley prepare for anything that may happen for zombies may come back from the dead and they maybe closer than you might think...