Response to Zombies
The thought of zombies does not usually cross my mind very often. I do not usually enjoy watching “scary” movies that involve things such as zombies or spirits for that matter. When reading this article I was exposed to many things that I had not thought about previously. Where the idea of zombies came from was a huge shock to me because the thought I had always had was that a director or author somewhere came up with the idea. To learn that this idea actually stemmed from a Haitian culture is fascinating. Most of the thoughts of today are that the “end of the world” is going to have to do with a zombie outbreak. People are supposedly going to come into contact with a military experiment gone badly and then begin spreading it throughout the world. This thought has been portrayed in multiple ways, with everything from a bio hazard accident to nuclear warfare. The thought of zombies being the way the world will end seems like a faraway fantasy; however, after reading how the thought of zombies came to be shows that in fact things like zombies have been around in the past. Not quite the same as they are today but the same concept. With this new outlook and understanding of zombies it pushes me more toward believing that there is actually a possibility of an existence of zombie like creatures. After reading this, I remembered the story of the man in Florida who was said to be under the influence of “bath salts”, which is a drug that makes people hallucinate. The man attacked another man on the street and it took cops shooting him multiple times before he was brought down. The attack was not a usual attack. The man started biting the other gentlemen and left him with little to no face at all. These actions correlate with the actions thought of with zombies. Along with the ideas that previously have been thought of, as the way that zombies would