What’s in your head, zombie?

There have been several versions of the apocalypse that have been presented in the media, others factual, like the climate change that has been taking place in the whole world, others based on human-influenced factors, like nuclear war and the existence of terrorism. I’ve always been a fan of survival horror and yes, I guess I’ve been watching a little too much zombie flicks like Night of the Living dead, Dawn of the dead, I am Legend and the Resident evil Trilogy, I’ve been playing a little too much Left 4 dead and I’ve probably spent so much of my time reflecting on the curves and mindsets of the scantily clad women of the Resident Evil series. But I guess what’s so scary about this type of apocalypse is its plausibility. I’m not saying climate change isn’t plausible, and nuclear war, I’m saying, it’s something that’s just plain scary because we’d all be dying some gruesome death courtesy of our once living human relatives. After reading this post, you’d probably tell me: Get a Life.

Here’s how I think it would happen:

As we’ve seen in the movies and as we hear in games’ stories, a sort of virus has evolved or is created by some corporation that immediately kills its host and implants upon it an instinct to kill the nearest living thing, probably as some food source. Imagine how the rabies virus should evolve or is enhanced. The ordinary rabies virus can turn a once loyal family pet, into a bloodthirsty, violent beast. Imagine what an enhanced form of rabies virus can do if it were able to do the same with humans. To make matters worse, if it was created by human hands, this sort of thing can be sold to terrorists and there’s obviously nothing to stopthem, unless of course, we give in to what they want.

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Yaarhgh!!

Yesterday, April 8, 2009, at around 7.30 AM, a bunch of Somali pirates hijacked a Danish owned ship that was bringing a hefty bunch of humanitarian aid. The ship known as Maersk Arkansas was boarded by said pirates as it was passing the horn of Africa. In the boarding, one of the crew members took down one of the pirates whilst the pirates took hostage the captain of their crew. In an attempt to negotiate, the crew wanted to trade their captive for their captain. They kept their end of the bargain, but the Somali pirates don’t seem to want to keep theirs.

The Pirates of Somalia

There have been 66 attacks on some traveling ships in 2006 alone and these attacks seem to not stop. The current solution to this problem is the negotiation with these pirates in the hopes that they’ll be releasing some of their 250 captives in exchange with monetary aid and what-not. Obviously, this isn’t working and it’s fundamentally unacceptable to negotiate with what the International Community has deemed hostilis humanis generis—the enemy of mankind.

Let’s look at the reason why they’re called enemies of mankind: 1) They don’t owe allegiance to any country or state, 2) they pillage and rob innocent ships that they lay their eyes on, provided that these ships are considerably unprotected and 3) they’re basically pirates, they don’t have any cause to fight for, unlike terrorists who claim to have a worthy cause. They loot and plunder any ship they lay their wretched eyes on and they don’t live up to promises made with other states. They’re probably working for some warlord in his twisted goal of taking over some weird land in Africa.

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