Monsters

No, this isn't about Lady Gaga.
I was talking to one of my friends and he brought up the idea of attacking zombies with a space raptor. Then I said, what if the zombies take one of them down! Then we'll have zombie space raptors! Not cool.
(There's a point to this.)
Then I was like...you know? No wonder God didn't create any "monsters", human beings are monstrous enough. I mean, I just finished reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy and it was devastating in it's simplicity and realism. I can see society becoming one where many lose their humanity and succumb to the greed of pursuing their miserable existence by harvesting the bodies of other people for food.

Or take World War Z, where governments, trying to hide the reality of something or are denying that dead infected people are being reanimated, explain it as political unrest at best, a mild disturbance at worst.

What is so frightening is how closely these stories resemble the reality of humanity's reaction to adversity. I know our history is full of some rising up and being strong and courageous in the face of adversity, but our history is also full of stories where people have destroyed one another for the sake of some belief that was flawed.

Flawed beliefs are held by all, how do we surpass these?

And when it comes down to it, will you stand and be strong? or will you succumb to the selfishness of life and consume others - metaphorically or literally?

There are things that go bump in the night - I fear them more than the phantoms in my mind or on my television screen.