When the Zombies Attack, You’ll Need Your Gun

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-11/when-the-zombies-attack-you-ll-need-your-gun.html

Zombies are everywhere these days. In June, Brad Pitt will star in the film version of Max Brooks’s best-selling novel “World War Z.” The Westerosi of “Game of Thrones” have to worry about the White Walkers. Harry Potter had to face the Inferi. Even Dr. Gregory House had to battle zombies, although it turned out he was only dreaming.

So it should scarcely come as a surprise that zombies have moaned and shuffled their way into politics -- including, unsurprisingly, the debate over gun control. This month, an article in the Guardian created a stir by analyzing AMC’s wildly popular serial “The Walking Dead” -- every episode of which features scenes in which the characters must either kill their way out of corners or die horribly -- and concluding that the program, properly understood, represents a call for more regulation of firearms.

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We should look deeper. Zombie fiction is particularly popular among the young -- the same young, remember, who overwhelmingly believe that Social Security won’t be there when they retire. I suspect that zombie stories appeal to a generation that is secretly worried that government itself won’t make it; that the manifest inability of our politics to cope with today’s challenges suggests a likely incompetence at tackling tomorrow’s.

Do you feel threatened by the "zombie apocalypse"? What issues (represented by the zombie apocalypse) are the most threatening to our future success? Are we facing these issues now or should we prepare to face them in the future? Also how could we prepare/ protect ourselves from the threats of what's to come?