Fear the Walking Dead (Not)

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There’s a new zombie series on cable television called “Fear the Walking Dead.”

While I’ve managed to watch, (and even enjoy) the Twilight series of movies which deals with vampires and werewolves, I just can’t get into zombies. The few times I have attempted to watch a segment, I never cease to think,

“These guys and gals are just low paid extras wearing a ton of morbid makeup.”

You can imagine that sort of mindset spoils it for me every time.

Fear the Walking Dead?

Hmmmm.

I tend to think we should

Fear the Walking Alive.

We live in a troubled world in which war has replaced peace, order has given way to confusion, and apathy reigns in place of empathy. Terrorism in on the rise. The crimes of murder, child abuse, home invasion and prostitution are, sadly, almost taken for granted. As I write these words a stream of refugees stretches from Syria and Afghanistan and Iraq and into Germany, and the so-called Islamic State is hacking off the heads of innocents, and “marrying” the wives they involuntarily leave behind.

“The Walking Dead” is, in reality, a contradiction in terms since

… the dead don’t walk.

Fear the Walking Alive. For it is they who hold the power to destroy lives, and devastate all that we hold dear.

By William McDonald, PhD. Excerpt from "(Mc)Donald's Daily Diary" Vol. 7