Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.
Max Brooks
The living dead had taken more from us than land and loved ones. They'd robbed us of our confidence as the planet's dominant life form. We were a shaken, broken species, driven to the edge of extinction and grateful only for tomorrow with perhaps a little less suffering than today. Was this the legacy we would leave our children, a level of anxiety and self-doubt not seen since our simian ancestors cowered in the tallest trees? What kind of world would they rebuild? Would they rebuild at all? Could they continue to progress, knowing that they would be powerless to reclaim their future? And what if that future saw another rise of the living dead? Would our descendants rise to meet them in battle, or simply crumple in meek surrender and accept what they believe to be their inevitable extinction? For this alone, we had to reclaim our planet. We had to prove to ourselves that we could do it, and leave that proof as this war's greatest monument. The long, hard road back to humanity, or the regressive ennui of Earth's once-proud primates. That was the choice, and it had to be made now.
hope
Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.
truth lies falsehood
Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
education school zombies
I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
fear enemy
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
weakness human-nature zombie scepticism
After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.
pride blame
Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
technology zombie science-fiction zombies
media news journalism
The monkey didn't help matters any. He was sitting on top of the microbus, just watching the undead plunge to their end. His face appeared so serene, so intelligent, as if he truly understood the situation. I almost wanted him to turn to me and say, 'This is the turning point of the war! We've finally stopped them! We're finally safe!' But instead his little penis popped out and he peed in my face.
funny humor zombies
The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. Intelligence organizations have ever been some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, global illuminati. For starters, we never hand that kind of funding.
zombies
But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.
Because Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
americans
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