For the Love of God, Would You Please Cool It With All The Zombie Nonsense?
I am making this post because, for the last few days, everyone on the internet has basically driven me up a wall with their rabid ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ craziness.
Please, please stop. Stop talking about zombies, and werewolves, and vampires, and OH MY GOD Chuck Norris. I know I’m reflecting a good chunk of the global community’s opinion here when I say that it’s really getting old.
The slight problem I’ve got with this endless obsession people have with post-apocalyptic/mythical/action-packed figures is not just because I don’t personally enjoy it. I have no right to tell anyone what they should and shouldn’t obsess over no matter what I think of it. But what irks me to no end is the way in which people go so ridiculously overboard with their zombie mania (for example), that they’re willing to turn a gruesome crime and an extremely troubling incident into a constant, somewhat harmful joke about their obsession.
It’s like they’re forgetting that zombies are fictional, and that humans aren’t.
Take this ‘Miami Cannibal’ deal that went down a few days ago. Sure, its kind of weird and entertaining to consider the idea of a guy eating another guy’s face off. Of course, that weird, entertaining curiosity should easily go away when you take the time to really consider the fact that a guy ate another guy’s face off!
That’s a gruesome, heartless, unfathomably twisted crime, you know. While you can sit at home, and make a ‘hurr, hurr the zombies are here’ Facebook status, the reality is that someone’s friend/sibling/son/relative/neighbor/whatever has gotten almost murderously assaulted in one of the most brutally disgusting ways possibly imaginable. And, I can assure you, that neither he nor anyone who cares for him will be laughing at this joke.
That would be the equivalent of someone making a global meme about some tragic, life-altering incident that happened to you or someone you love just because it reminds them of sparkly vampires. Imagine the entire world belittling what you went through in the exact same way and making your experience sound like some everyday, interesting anecdote. Then imagine some idiot making a ‘funny’ Facebook status about it and getting 100 likes for it.
Bet you won’t be laughing either.
And, hey, I’m not saying that all the people who actually participated in this ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ meme deal are horrible human beings. I’m just saying they might need to reconsider what they’re saying and realize that maybe somethings are above their crazy obsessions. Nor am I saying that it’s never okay to make a darkly humorous joke about a traumatizing incident from time to time in order to, perhaps, help someone deal with it.
What I am saying is that its definitely not okay for us to make A GLOBAL JOKE out of someone’s crime and someone’s brutal tragedy. Because what ends up happening is a gradual hardening of human emotion and a growing disregard for other future, similar incidents that could be just as fatally dangerous and gruesome and not actually funny.
All my love!
I don’t know if the link you shared contains the photo of the victim’s face after the incident (didn’t click on it not to risk seeing that photo again). But I really doubt anyone who ever saw that would be able to even think of “zombies”. It’s just horrible.
And the biggest mistake is how the media actually released details about the substance which the man had took and influenced him this way. Specially that it’s off-the-shelf substance that anyone can buy. There are many total-idiots in this world and if we don’t hear about more people being hooked on this substance in a short time, then I don’t know anything. I think there already was another incident where another man ate parts of a guy he killed, didn’t read much about it though so I don’t know the details. But the media ought to know by now that when they broadcast news they’re not only reporting it, to some people, they’re giving them ideas.
I heard that the name “Bath Salts” was just the name that the drugs were given, as opposed to being like the same kind of Bath Salts you could buy from The Body Shop or something. Either way, it is definitely very confusing and unnecessary.
Also, I agree 100%. The sad truth is, however, that the media doesn’t really care how or who it influences. All it cares about is creating hype and getting ratings (or clicks or views or whatever). And, yes, I heard about this copy-cat incident (I believe it was in Maryland this time) which yet EVEN MORE people are using for their thoughtless Zombie Apocalypse obsession nonsense.
People need to realize that when they do this they are actually making a very dangerous drug and the crime associated with it seem stupid and a matter which should be taken lightly. They are, as you said, giving people ideas that this might be cool or exciting to try out. Even worse, they might be making the authorities or people in power not take it as seriously as it actually is.
ya cool it before there is a magjor panic not such a thig
I’m a fan of zombies but I totally agree with you. There is a line that must be drawn between fiction and reality. Making jokes and creating images of people’s trauma to fulfill a sick fantasy is not acceptable.
You took the words out of my mouth.
I think everyone has the right to hang on to whatever fandom, obsession, or any form of distinct interest however they wish. That’s not the problem.
The problem is when people get so over-hyped over this fantasy (as you perfectly put it) that they’re WILLING to disregard, belittle, and possibly cause great harm to an issue that should be handled very carefully as mental illness and a drug problem. They should not, by any means, turn it into a global punchline.
stop causeing a panic no suchthing as a zombie
should not print about a zombie apoclypse enough to worry about in this on godly world right now