I must say, I found this article to be rather funny, mainly because I think too much thought has been put into it. Maybe this is just me, but a "real" zombie outbreak is very, very unlikely. But hey, If I'm wrong, I'll be the first to say so. I also had a good laugh at this:
"We found out recently that if you try to leave a little kid in a graveyard late at night, he'll freak out. Even if you offer to leave him a gun to protect himself. Why? It's because on some instinctual level, all humans know it's just a matter of time until the zombies show up."
Or it could be that kids are scared of what is unknown. Your imagination is what makes things scary. I think fear of the dark and scary places is more accurate.
Michael, I notice you are once again coming back to the "putting too much thought into it" idea that we'd talked a little about in class...
I wonder if we might continue this conversation in terms of art and its relationship to culture in general. Of course, in some sense, you're absolutely right that all this is just fiction, movies, books, even satirical articles, but where ought thinking start & end? How much can be made of this? How much can we say about the world based on the stories that that world creates? (And, if we don't look at a culture's fictions, what can we look at to say things about the world reliably {or can we at all?})?
Sorry for not clarifying when I dropped off the link, but it's intended to be read as a joke possibility. Cracked.com is something similar to an internet version of The Onion.
I must say, I found this article to be rather funny, mainly because I think too much thought has been put into it. Maybe this is just me, but a "real" zombie outbreak is very, very unlikely. But hey, If I'm wrong, I'll be the first to say so. I also had a good laugh at this:
ReplyDelete"We found out recently that if you try to leave a little kid in a graveyard late at night, he'll freak out. Even if you offer to leave him a gun to protect himself. Why? It's because on some instinctual level, all humans know it's just a matter of time until the zombies show up."
Or it could be that kids are scared of what is unknown. Your imagination is what makes things scary. I think fear of the dark and scary places is more accurate.
Thanks for the link, Dustin.
ReplyDeleteMichael, I notice you are once again coming back to the "putting too much thought into it" idea that we'd talked a little about in class...
I wonder if we might continue this conversation in terms of art and its relationship to culture in general. Of course, in some sense, you're absolutely right that all this is just fiction, movies, books, even satirical articles, but where ought thinking start & end? How much can be made of this? How much can we say about the world based on the stories that that world creates? (And, if we don't look at a culture's fictions, what can we look at to say things about the world reliably {or can we at all?})?
Sorry for not clarifying when I dropped off the link, but it's intended to be read as a joke possibility. Cracked.com is something similar to an internet version of The Onion.
ReplyDeleteSorry. I never heard of Cracked. Wasn't sure.
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