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11 jul 06 "Why can zombieism only be transmitted via a bite? Futhermore, assuming the origin of the zombie apocalypse as George A. Romero imagined, how can zombieism be transmitted at all?" the origin? romero never explained first zombie's source in "night of the living dead", so i'm not sure what you're talking about. the 'zombie apocalypse' (a plague of zombieism sweeping over the earth), as seen in romero's fourth movie ("land of the dead"), doesn't have a clear origin either -- the dead just come to life for some reason, according to plot summaries. so, screw that. why can zombeism only be transmitted via a bite? i presume because its transmitted via bodily fluids; maybe unprotected sex with zombies or sharing needles with zombies hasn't yet taken off. i had to force myself to answer this question, because i don't care about it. another reason i had a hard time writing this is that i'm still upset with having to call the police on my neighbors for playing a drum-set, full force, in their garage for a few hours. they're just a bunch of kids, 14 or 15 years old, and i empathize somewhat; as a teen, played guitar with a drummer who was extrememly loud. but the house in which i played was a lot more isolated and far from its neighbors than this offending house is to me. my mom visited and talked to them, so as to avoid me doing so, losing my temper and doing something foolish, which almost happened another date on which people were generating excessive noise. she told them politely to keep it down, and they rudely said "we can't -- we're practicing." then she told them that someone might call the police, to which they answered "no one has yet". they resumed banging away. so, i called the police non-emergency number, and had "the man" visit me -- they sent two cars (montgomery county cops are overfunded and bored), and the officer told me that they'd ask the kids to keep it down. unfortunately, there aren't any noise ordinances here until 9pm, so banging away in a garage isn't something that can be legally stopped. but oh well. who cares. zombeism can only be transmitted via a bite because the zombie virus is transmitted by zombie bodily fluids, including saliva (zombies don't sweat). i don't understand the second part of your question. sorry to dissappoint you -- maybe i'm burning out here. well...it might simply be that this last batch of four or so questions were difficult for me, and they happened to arrive all at once. "difficult for me" is perhaps equal to "uninteresting to me," but maybe i'm just feeling lazy and crappy right now. if the next few questions are also hard, i'm going to assume that i'm getting burned out, or was permanently shaken and upset by the noisy neighbor incident. living around other people is really the pits, let me tell you. i should move to antarctica, which is as of yet unpopulated by zombies. i don't share the fascination with the zombie mythos. i've never been into any monster movies, in fact. however, when i was 8 or something, i saw an old 1930s movie called "the horror of dracula", and it freaked me out severely. for a long time afterwards, i would check my mom's teeth every night to make sure she wasn't a vampire. i think the concept of "aunt lucy" was what specifically freaked me out -- someone close to you suddenly becoming a vampire, and you not being aware of it (until it's too late). zombiesm is the exactly same -- a zombie is a shell of the person you knew, which then comes and bites you, turning you into a simliar shell. a person's vital essence being replaced while their carcass remains intact implies the existence of a soul, which perhaps contributes to the appeal of these monster movies. something like vampirism might be some sort of jungian archetype: fundamentally, the nature of contagion. lots of fiction enjoys the zombie/vampire/contagion theme, including an episode of star trek in which everyone becomes addicted to a drug-like video game, and chases wesley crusher around the ship trying to get him to play it. it's a good episode. furthermore, zombies, vampires and werewolves are monsters that are made from people, which might also be responsible for their being so appealing, and frightening in a fun way ("it could happen to you!"). frankestien was too, come to think of it. i don't exactly know what the asker is talking about in the second part of his question (i'm 99% sure this was a "he"), probably because i don't have the proper research tools at my disposal (5 hours of zombie DVDs). i tried reading wikipedia a bit, about romero's zombie tetrology and whatnot, starting with that first movie in something like 1968 ("night of the living dead"), but it was pretty uninteresting, so i stopped. i've seen two of them: "night of the living dead" and "return of the living dead". in the second, zombies yelled "brains!" all of the time. they were obsessed with brains, because they ate them to ease the pain of rotting alive, as was explained by a chopped-in-half zombie woman on a hospital gurney. ok, i'm going to consider this answer "done." you win some, you lose some, eh? i think this is a definite loser. i'm almost too lazy to go back and correct some of the sentences that i know are just horribly screwed up, grammatically. i knew that as i was typing them. it's going to take as long to fix this up as took to write it. i've tortured you enough already by writing this much -- if i can't answer a question, i like to compensate by babbling on about nothing. QED for the person who asked a question related to this, a few back. i love contradicting myself, especially when i don't have to defend a thesis; it gives me a feeling of power. why isn't it "zombieitis"? |
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