Zombie Nation Or How We Stopped Thinking
“The Walking Dead,” “iZombie,” “Z Nation” and so on. What’s up with this overwhelming attraction to the macabre?
"Zombie movies all used to end […] with that feeling of incredibly bleak hopelessness," said Sarah Juliet Lauro, an English and film professor at Clemson University.
Is our society becoming attracted to what it’s becoming?
We’re too distracted to think as a result of an exposure to a wide variety of addictive technology and an overflow of info but mostly because of the education system which turns us into overthinking robots?
Children are spending more than 50 hours a week with digital media, which will have a profound effect on their brain structure for the rest of their lives since their brains aren’t developed yet. A Nielsen Company audience report reveals that adults in the United States devoted about 10 hours and 39 minutes each day to consuming media in 2016.
Thousands of kids are combatting game addiction in South Korea--and in most of the world today. Their health is getting worse and their lives are losing any semblance of structure or meaning. Students proud themselves for being multitasking experts, but according to MIT professor David Jones, they are getting worse at absorbing information and paying attention to lectures.
Overthinking and multitasking is just part of the problem. Our society is filled with autists because of the what’s in our food, drugs and vaccines and a declining connection with our surroundings.
Fiction writer and alt-right commentator Brittany Pettibone explains how our destructive way of life-- imposed to us by the state--has an alarming effect on our society,
“People are hysterical because they place emotions over reason. People are disoriented. People’s minds are completely muddled. They can’t deductively reason anymore. They’re not logical. When people stop responding to logic, reason and the natural unspoken rules that confine a society and don’t even respond anymore, things become unpredictable.”
Judith Weissman, a research manager in the department of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center explains how mental illness is on the rise. Suicide is on the rise and access to care for the mentally ill is getting worse.
According to the National Alliance of Mental Illness, 1 in 5 adults in the U.S.—43.8 million, or 18.5%—experiences mental illness in a given year, and 1 in 25 adults in the U.S.—9.8 million, or 4.0%—experiences a serious mental illness in a given year that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities.
Life is has gradually lost its purpose for thousands of people, another culprit being the mainstream media.
How can human beings become enlightened or simply happy in a society which does everything to make us poor, sick and basically slaves—which turns us into zombies?
It’s so easy to hold strong opinions on everything and needing simple solutions to make up decisions. Good, bad, racist, sexist, xenophobic etc. Misinterpret what someone is saying because it’s easy, pick a team and move on with your life. We used to have a minimum of critical thinking, we used to have interesting debates. When did we stop thinking?
You are so right. The vast majority of people have lost touch with reality and that tragedy can be laid directly at the foot of government. Government wants people distracted and confused. On the farm, you put a bucket of molasses covered oats in front of the cow. Only then, while she is distracted by the "cow candy," can you milk her. Humans are no different. Engineered distraction, confusion and conflict keep us divided and conquered as the government consumes us. The vast majority don't know this and neither do they care.
Sadly, I doubt that this is going to turn around peacefully, that is die, with a whimper. I don't think there will be a revolution either. At some point, the people will become so dumbed down that the system will no longer work, or some natural tragedy will strip them of their electronic virtual reality and comfortable infrastructure and they'll be forced to band together to survive. What of us who know what's happening? Best to learn survival skills and then stand back as the lemmings run off the cliff. Then we survivors can rebuild a much better world. Spreading this information is about all we can do until then.
I also have a zombie related post coming up in a few days. Follow me and you'll have a better chance of seeing it as it goes whizzing by in this Steemit jetstream of information.
Love your GIFS by the way. Steem on.
CZ
Haha, I like to put some humor in such a somber world. thank you! Already following! :) I am a bit more optimistic though. When you look at businesses like uber, Airbnb or even bitcoin, I feel like there's some sort of growing awakening about what's really going on. I don't think there will be a revolution either--mostly because those who would start it know that the media will undermine them and spread false info and those who will watch won't believe what they say, but it will take a slower pace through things like the spread of cryptocurrency or those non state like businesses like uber. Looking forward to reading your other posts!