Zombies and Fear
Jun. 13th, 2007 04:40 pmI guess it's a testament to either my friends good writing skills, or to the media that has Pavlov'ed me, unwittingly, into a complete state of paranoia and irrational fear.
When I opened Livejournal this morning, the first friend's entry that I read was very well crafted, and left me scrambling for CNN, and then Boston.com, and then the BBC. Because, you know, maybe it was that their webfolk hadn't been able to update the site yet.
Because I didn't think "Zombies," I thought "Terrorist Attack." (it was a well written entry with no mention of typical zombie action.)
And for a short, yet too long period of time, my heart was in my throat again.
The same way it was during the damn "LightBrite" incident.
The same way it was 6 years ago.
After figureing out what the heck was going on, I allowed myself to be amused - and really, it has provided an interesting diversion for a day when I have effectively worked myself out of work.
This "Live" journal is an interesting beast. I am comforted that I don't believe everything I read on the intar-web, and do my research to back things up. The speed of information is staggering - who's to say what's true anymore, without first-hand experience to back it up? How much do we rely on friends to post "truths"?
It raises questions with me about the world, and the sad state of a collective soul when I can't take a lighthearted exercise the way it was intended...
I have sat here, and tried to write something up to participate, in vain.
I guess I listen to the news too much, read the paper too much, and any fiction I write can't hold a candle to actual horrors that occur around the world every day.
- K.
When I opened Livejournal this morning, the first friend's entry that I read was very well crafted, and left me scrambling for CNN, and then Boston.com, and then the BBC. Because, you know, maybe it was that their webfolk hadn't been able to update the site yet.
Because I didn't think "Zombies," I thought "Terrorist Attack." (it was a well written entry with no mention of typical zombie action.)
And for a short, yet too long period of time, my heart was in my throat again.
The same way it was during the damn "LightBrite" incident.
The same way it was 6 years ago.
After figureing out what the heck was going on, I allowed myself to be amused - and really, it has provided an interesting diversion for a day when I have effectively worked myself out of work.
This "Live" journal is an interesting beast. I am comforted that I don't believe everything I read on the intar-web, and do my research to back things up. The speed of information is staggering - who's to say what's true anymore, without first-hand experience to back it up? How much do we rely on friends to post "truths"?
It raises questions with me about the world, and the sad state of a collective soul when I can't take a lighthearted exercise the way it was intended...
I have sat here, and tried to write something up to participate, in vain.
I guess I listen to the news too much, read the paper too much, and any fiction I write can't hold a candle to actual horrors that occur around the world every day.
- K.