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Thoreau Meets Zombieland

In the 1850's, Henry David Thoreau wrote: The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. Today an art critic writes of the modern times: Every zombie war is a war of attrition. It?s always a numbers game. And it?s more repetitive than complex. In other words, zombie killing is philosophically similar to reading and deleting 400 work e-mails on a Monday morning or filling out paperwork that only generates more paperwork, or following Twitter gossip out of obligation, or performing tedious tasks in which the only true risk is being consumed by the avalanche. The principle downside to any zombie attack is that the zombies will never stop coming; the principle downside to life is that you will be never be finished with whatever it is you do...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on December 04, 2010 (boomark / email).