Scenes From The Zombie Apocalypse
In the comments, Dicentra shares the video embedded below:
Are you ok with this?pic.twitter.com/iC22VLL8bo
— Dr. Clown, PhD (@DrClownPhD) June 16, 2025
Along with the comment,
There is, I think, among many, a weariness of seeing escalating levels of fucking about with too little of the customary finding out.
The driver’s actions are at least comprehensible, a response to aggression, alarm and danger. The activists’ actions, in contrast, are a deranged provocation, a twisted entertainment. A gratuitous cause of danger. And the kinds of creatures who play these unhinged, sadistic games cannot be relied on to observe normal moral boundaries.
She, the activist, and her gang of masked associates, are the ones needlessly initiating the drama. They are the ones going out of their way to aggress random strangers, creating a credible threat, and doing so with glee. It’s an in-your-face display of recreational malice. They are high on themselves, on their mob power, and they’re loving every minute of it. These are not activities indulged in reluctantly or under duress.
And the activists’ power lies in an assumption that their victims will not risk injuring their assailants.
But to insist that the victims should remain trapped, inert, and at the mercy of their aggressors, indefinitely, and while risking greater danger to themselves or their property, does not strike me as a morally persuasive position. And note that the activists typically rush from all sides, rapidly surrounding the car and its occupants, intensifying the alarm, the likelihood of panic, and drastically reducing the driver’s options. This is not accidental.
There’s an implied dare. The game being, “You won’t do what’s needed, despite our alarming and menacing behaviour, because you’re nicer than us, less vain, and not unhinged, and so we can dominate you and terrorise you, and break your stuff, for as long as we want, for shits and giggles.”
Well. I would suggest that the activists’ own actions render their wellbeing of very low importance.
Again, people who behave in this way cannot be relied on to observe normal moral boundaries. Are their victims, their chosen targets, those alarmed drivers and passengers, the ones just going about their business – are they supposed to assume that the mob of unhinged aggressors exulting in their capture and harassment will not press their advantage and do something worse?
“Now they’re only smashing the windscreen and pulling at the door handles.”
“And now they’re only…”
At what point, precisely, would one’s alarm be considered sufficient? By all means use the comments to thrash out this terribly modern moral problem.
The driver did nothing wrong.
‘Finding out’ needs to make a comeback in a big way.
I was reminded of this rather shocking video, from Portland in 2016, of similar ‘activist’ tactics, in which a lone female driver is encircled by a mob of baseball-bat-wielding ‘protestors’ who are trying to smash her car’s windscreen into her face while videoing her distress. For amusement purposes.
Because they’re such righteous people. Not just sociopaths with a pretext.
Thing is, the drivers and passengers being menaced by self-styled activists have to consider what kind of person would aggress them in this way. They wear masks and rush in front of moving cars, and then encircle them, trapping them, in order to dominate and terrorise the occupants and thereby feel important.
Importance being conceived as having power over others.
To assume that the creatures who do this – who choose to do this, over and over again, exulting in each triumph – are somehow good people, or that they mean well, or that they are likely to show restraint and not violate further boundaries… seems foolish. To say the least.
George Romero told us how to deal with zombies.
That.
“Let my people go, let my people go!”
Not unrelated, pinhead appears perplexed finding out Egyptian laws are different.
Note the US states in which this is most often seen – blue states without “stand your ground” laws or ones based on the castle doctrine. In states like my own or even more speciically Florida – where authorities practically promise the “finding out” part – this is not seen because these sociopaths know the populace will take action and be rewarded for doing so.
Regardless of location, it needs to happen more so the sense of a credible threat is strengthened.
Also . . . what the hell is with those pants?!
The only moral question is how many times you can run them over.
From here, for those who missed it. Because life is just one big Rick and Morty cartoon.
And which, again, doesn’t exactly suggest emotionally stable people, to whom one’s wellbeing can be entrusted.
Perhaps a bumbersticker that says “My vehicle identifies as Kyle Rittenhouse?”
More FAFO, same state.
Tell the insurance that you hit a Manatee.
Bad idea. You’ll have angry Krasnovian investigators banging on your front door.
And:
Curious if any of the readers here has read this? Plays into the Simulation thing as well, apparently. A little unsure regarding the synopsis. I wouldn’t say ‘imposed’. Nor was it limited to the American culture. I’m a bit suspicious that it’s a weak book designed to undermine the point it is ostensibly trying to make. Just doing some DD before I buy.
Normalising tantrums hasn’t been conducive to decorum.