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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Zombie Apocalypse


Zombies. Somehow someone got the idea from somewhere, deep within the crevice of their own assholes that the undead were a cool idea. Something that dies and comes back, essentially immortal - I mean, you can't kill what isn't alive, right? - and craves human and only human flesh/brains. No other aminals are at risk, it's only humans zombies are interested in. Which, if it isn't obvious yet, I hate zombies, zombie movies, zombie video games, and everything else related to zombies.

What bugs me about zombies and all paraphernalia, is that in almost every scenario, the zombies magically appear out of nowhere and are suddenly taking over the world. No attempts are made to figure out where the zombies came from or how to cure them - it's always just KILL THE FUCKING ZOMBIES. WIN THE FIGHT. I should also mention that a cure for the zombie disease is almost always magically discovered No, that's stupid, cliche, and annoying. Makes a horrible story. Three zombie movies I've seen out of far too many have been good in my book. Well, perhaps I should say stories instead of movies, since the Resident Evil collection was several movies long. As for the other two, the recently-made World War Z and an older, but still semi-recent, I Am Legend. In Resident Evil, it explains where the zombies come from, the story tells the viewers who created the zombies, for what purpose, and what they plan to do about them. Incidentally, it's nothing. But a story is created where a fight against the zombies ensues, but a cure isn't developed. They simply form a new defense and learn to live away from the zombies, if I remember correctly. It's been a while. In World War Z, Brad Pitt attempts to discover where the zombies came from, following a trail across the world. I Am Legend's zombies originate from a plague that mutated the survivors into zombie-like creatures, Will Smith being the exception. He works for years, studying, surviving, and attempting to develop a cure for it. Not magically appearing or "10 years later..."

Hands down, my favorite zombie action ever, is in an Anime called One Piece. The main character, Luffy, is such a simpleton that it's just hilarious. He hasn't got half a working brain cell and his reactions in certain situations are priceless.
I mean, how can it get any better than this? Ps. That's him with the straw hat and net in the orange vest.

Monday, August 5, 2013

Lies for the Lost

As it's been quite a while since I wrote, I've been trying to think of something to write about. The book I'm reading found a dead person, so they held a funeral for him and I found what I wished to rant about. Funerals and their processions.

When someone dies, whether they are buried or cremated, there's always a funeral. At funerals, the person's life is most always hallowed and only good things are said about the person - regardless of if they lived their life as a nice person, who tried to take care of everyone or if they were a cruel, sadistic and bitter old fool who lashed out at all around themselves. Regardless of how their lives were lived, all speeches and words said for them are only kind. When a friend of mine took her life close to a year ago now, my school district exploded. All the students that had hated her and treated her like awful shit - the ones who bullied and made fun of her, suddenly proclaimed that Faith, as was her name, was smart, beautiful, kind. They tried to be her best friends in death, when the reality was they were the reason she felt driven to kill herself.

I understand why we feel the need to speak well of someone in their passing, but why do we feel the need to make up lies about people in their deaths? They could be bitter and angry, someone who hated and bit at all who saw them, but the moment they die, suddenly they're saints.

One of my favorite books, Ender's Game, had a sequel called Speaker of the Dead. I loved Speaker of the Dead in particular, because Ender took it upon himself to speak for the dead. Not in false truths of only kind words, but to lay out the whole, pure truth of who the dead was. If the person had lived a life of vice, indulging in too much food and drink, who gambled too much and took advantage of others - those are the things Ender would speak of, instead of trying to portray them as someone who did no wrong.

Why can't our society be that way? Respect for the dead isn't given through creating the illusion that the dead were much better people than they were alive. Nor is it taken from them by telling who the dead actually was.