How Modern Life Is Like a Zombie Onslaught - NYTimes.com - 12 views
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ashleykung on 09 Apr 13"There are slow zombies, and there are fast zombies- that's pretty much the spectrum of zombie diversity." This part actually made me laugh out loud, mostly because of how ridiculously simple and true the sentence is. Zombies in a traditional sense don't really have feelings or minds of their own; their only instincts are to eat, destroy that which cannot be eaten, and to stay alive/undead. There is no actual diversity amongst zombies, unlike in humans. We have such a wide range and spectrum of inner and outer feelings and characteristics that it is entirely possible to be standing in the same room as someone whose qualities are completely opposite to yours. This, I think, is what's so beautiful yet terrible about the human race in general. As the diversity of our species is so great, we have some pretty terrible people, such as serial killers, as well as good people in our world, such as humanitarians. I think that this face of the human race is what helps defines us as humans. The moment we get too lost into technology and stop recognizing this, as Alice Gregory noted, we become the soulless undead ourselves. For a while, we forget who we are just to go online, and we mindlessly consume what we see on the web until we decide that we're bloated and go offline. Talking to someone in real life as they're searching things up is almost like talking to a wall, as they're engrossed in whatever they're doing and won't respond very actively or with much character at all.