The Zombie Apocalypse: It's Here!

Zombie movies and t.v. shows are a dime a dozen these days. People seem obsessed with the idea that one day, humanity will be wiped out by a virus that turns people into the undead, creating the central theme of most zombie-killing theatre today.

This fictional future scenario is certainly resonating within mainstream pop culture, a good example of how the apocalypse archetype is reflecting back throughout the mainstream media. I would guess that a large majority of people merely see it as fictional entertainment and nothing else.

But it's clear to me that the message of being undone by zombies is actually a subtle metaphor for the real virus infecting the world today, that which turns freethinking individuals into zombified automatons. As a result of the indoctrination of generation after generation of uncritically thinking masses, many humans are already essentially...zombies.

You know the ones. The mindless consumers, the people who watch obscene amounts of television, play obscene amounts of video games, all the while not caring enough to stop for a few hours to read a book or create something of their own free will. The people who only see themselves through the scope of the information and products they've been consuming all of their lives from sources only set up to profit from their ignorance.

This is what creates the sea of zombies that many of us find ourselves floating in these days. One becomes a zombie when they stop thinking for themselves, when they believe the lies they've been told and create false identities around them. One becomes a zombie not because their flesh is rotting, but because their mind is.

When your connection with the Self is lost, becoming a cultural zombie is the easiest to fill the void. I'd like to think evolver represents a step towards a collective dezombication process, and I'm hopeful about the path I'm taking towards freedom.