What is with all this hype about emergency preparedness and the "zombie apocalypse"? With new TV shows of extreme doomsday "preppers", commercials mentioning the Mayan calendar ending this year, and CNN even airing a story about the zombie apocalypse earlier today, it makes me wonder about this new mindset in our everyday reality today (no longer relegated to sci-fi fanatics and "Resident Evil" gamers). Why has the media become so fixated on dishing this kind of stuff out?
So...supposedly...we are going to lose control at the end of the world...soon to come due to various possible calamities, and as a result, people will kill each other for simple things like food, water, shelter, etc.? And, there will be no more gas for cars? The magnetic polarities of our North pole and South pole will shift unexpectedly? And, life as we know it will no longer be...
Well...getting a few supplies can't hurt (because hurricanes, unexpected power outages happen at times), but isn't it all a delusion to think that any further preparation outside a couple bottled water packs and snack bars would help, if indeed such an END is near? Even with serious military training, extremely large quantities of supplies, bountiful artillery, a squadron of highly trained soldiers to guard post and populate your fully portable "tribe", a portable underground, self-contained living compound with electromagnetic dampeners and impenetrable material so others can't detect your presence or break in, and with a lot of luck, the chances of survival are still close to null. Never mind the fact that mental illness and eventual cannibalism will most likely wreak havoc on the survivors to the point of tribe extermination.
I refuse to get carried away in this tide of paranoia. I choose to live my days, to the fullest possible, now...and hope with all my heart that such a horrible day does not come. That's all I can do and that's the last time I am thinking about this. :)
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