zombiepocalypse and the real world
Jun. 14th, 2007 07:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanWhen I first heard about this, I laughed. I wasn't sure how far it would spread, or how many people would get caught in the hoax (a lot, surprisingly), and if people would be pissed off (a few, reportedly).
What I hadn't thought about, until I made my first post, was how it would hit me as a participant.
Almost six years ago, I was sitting in my office in NYC, blogging to the outside world as my own world was forever changed through violence even more horrific -- and less understandable -- than zombies.
This wasn't the same experience, obviously. But even as I was laughing, and collaborating with others in the growing hoaxweb... there was a frission of discomfort in my spine. Because it was just enough the same - to 9/11, to things happening today all over the world - to make it real.
And maybe that's why it worked so well, and why people got so caught up in it for a day.
And we all had a bit of fun.
Which is the ultimate act of ownership of pain/fear, innit? To itch the scab, and laugh, however ruefully?
But back to the real world today. I''d rather zombies were on the front page, myself.
What I hadn't thought about, until I made my first post, was how it would hit me as a participant.
Almost six years ago, I was sitting in my office in NYC, blogging to the outside world as my own world was forever changed through violence even more horrific -- and less understandable -- than zombies.
This wasn't the same experience, obviously. But even as I was laughing, and collaborating with others in the growing hoaxweb... there was a frission of discomfort in my spine. Because it was just enough the same - to 9/11, to things happening today all over the world - to make it real.
And maybe that's why it worked so well, and why people got so caught up in it for a day.
And we all had a bit of fun.
Which is the ultimate act of ownership of pain/fear, innit? To itch the scab, and laugh, however ruefully?
But back to the real world today. I''d rather zombies were on the front page, myself.
