During this past September a favourite time killer of mine was to scroll through the best of Craigslist and read funny classified ads. One particular post caught my interest, since it posed a funny scenario for people to answer and post in their own personal ads (an ad to find someone else to date) instead of saying banal things like “I like to have fun” and “I like to go out with friends”. Am I doing this as a personal ad? Hell no. I just think the question is amusing. With that out of the way, let’s get started.
Scenario: Apocalypse WOW
The brain-eating-zombie virus has finally spread across the entire North American continent, and the rest of the world has placed your quadrant of the Earth under quarantine and left the survivors to fend for themselves. You remain holed up in your apartment/house/mother’s basement, and have mustered the courage to venture into the world outside.
Question A: What would finally make you venture into the outside world in the first place? Why not just curl up and die? What fuels your will to survive?
It would be the insanity of having been holed up in my house so long that I wouldn’t mind dying just for a breath of fresh air – assuming the atmosphere hasn’t been nuked or anything to eradicate the zombies. I’m also pretty sure I’d have run out of food by then. And of course, I’d need fresh shotgun ammo (because I have a shotgun obviously, who doesn’t in a zombie survival situation!? geez) to continue sniping the zombie bastards who keep harassing my humble abode. Or were they vampires? Who knows.
Question B: Describe the type of fellow survivor you would be most willing to help. What would you expect in return?
Giggity giggity giggity!
Question C: You and an attractive stranger of the opposite sex are charged with the duty or repopulating the continent. How will you remake society so as to avoid all the unsightly mistakes of the last one?
The evident and humorous answer would be to say, “something that don’t let frickin zombies attack again”. But… zombies attacking merely exacerbated the problems of society to a point that it collapsed. You can’t change human nature, which is inherently flawed, and since society is comprised of a multitude of humans, run by their individual and group behaviour as dictated by their nature (to varying degrees, the whole nature vs. nurture debate rises here), so society will always have “unsightly mistakes”. Go with whatever arises out of the mess of the world would be my answer.
As for repopulating – ew. Voluntary incest in the next generations when people from other continents can just come and do it? Yeah, no thanks.
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