Comments on: War Nerd: Apocalypse Never

By: M Otis Beard

M Otis Beard — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:19:34 +0000

Like just about everyone else (including most zombie flick aficionados), War Nerd misses the point of wishing for the zombie apocalypse. Inheriting the shopping mall is secondary; the real allure of the zombie apocalypse is purely metaphorical: The survivors are the weirdos, the misfits, the people just like Gary Brecher, and the zombies are the normal people, the status quo, the jocks and the churchgoing and the people who buy Miley Cyrus CDs. If you’re a weirdo with style, the normals want to make a product out of you and consume you. If you’re just a garden-variety weirdo, the normals want to infect you with their normalcy and turn you into them. Weirdos dream of being zombie apocalypse survivors because that would bring them the consequence-free environment in which their fondest dream could be lived out: the dream of shooting all those irritating normal assholes in the head.

By: Jonty City

Jonty City — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:29:28 +0000

Don’t think I don’t know who you’re talking about:

http://jontycity.blogspot.com/2009/07/war-nerd-you-jerk.html

By: j

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:22:04 +0000

Worry will be the last of your worries should the State stop working in Southern California. You have reservoirs enought supply drinking water for years. When water extraction for the aquifer stops, its level increases and suddenly you have springs starting to flow in depressions. Irrigated agriculture will have stop, but drinking water supply will never be a problem.

On the other hand, the apocaliptic scenatio is extremely unlike. Anglosaxon people are not like that. In the thousand year history of Anglosaxon people in Great Britain, public order never broke down. Wars, hunger, epidemies, revolutions, whatever. Anglo saxon people is genetically programmed to form ordered societies in no time. The Black Death killed half of the population in a few years, yet rents were paid, the government governed, agricultural production decreased only slightly. Italians left everything and orgied (Bocaccio), but Englishmen kept did nothing of the sort but kept paying their taxes. There never was a Kathrina like situation in any place populated by Anglosaxons. If deep down you feel that you it is dangerous to for you to lose your fatty bodily reserves, because you may starve, I assure you that you can safely lose weight as there will be no famine in Southern California, nor fighting for drinking water.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:18:34 +0000

Your house should not be used as a fort, it should be the bait for the unfriendlys, while you are 800 yards away with your Soviet Sniper Rifle or scoped 50BMG …

By: NavidsonFilm

NavidsonFilm — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:36:55 +0000

The apocalypse scenario is frequently a fantasy, from ‘if you were the last man on earth’, to Shaun of the Dead.

All of the problems in Shaun’s day-to-day life are neatly, well messily, solved by a zombie outbreak.

I guess that’s why Romero tends to favour the bleak endings, it’s a punishment for the narcissism of the apocalypse fantasy.

By: Central Valley Guy

Central Valley Guy — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:02:42 +0000

Anyone who romanticizes the End of Civilization should read Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.” It pretty much redefines bleak. A perpetual hunt for food and water while trying to avoid cannibalistic hordes and just stay alive to see another grey winter day. Nope, I’m not up for that, thank you.

By: InActionMan IAM

InActionMan IAM — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:07:22 +0000

Pure genius sir!
I used to read you in the Exile in Moscow, several years ago now, and am very happy to have found you again. Indeed, I’m so happy I’ve just ordered your book and hope it arrives before the end of the world, in which case you’ll find me reading it while gulping down Seine water with the insane.

By: G. Tingey

G. Tingey — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:09:36 +0000

“In every battle where they faced Germans on equal terms in either of the world wars, the Brits lost.”

I suggest you go and read some REAL history BEFORE you make a comment as stupid and uninformed as this again……..

By: Youmakesomegoodpointsandsomenot

Youmakesomegoodpointsandsomenot — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:26:22 +0000

You make a few good points, and some that aren’t so good.

First of all, if water stops running entirely or they blow up the water supply in an unlikely scenario there is the lake that’s a few miles east and plenty more things to get going.

Having been in real survival situations I can tell you, it takes one to know one.

That being said if after the revolution this country looks remarkably different, and its still not over because Israel decides to start firing off nuclear bombs into other countries, including the USA, that will be the time I disappear into the Grand Canyon for a good while…..then hijack a plane ticket out of the country.

How they ask. I’ll let God guide me as usual, if such a thing was reality, because I know deep down God does really exist. He’s been there all through out my life, and that’s the one thing I’m truly sure of.

Even when others have decided he does not exist, the spirit lives on for me.

By: rob

rob — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:52:45 +0000

you guys need to read THE classic end times novel, “The Day of the Triffids” by John Wyndham, basically all british movies of that kind used it