re: #66 Targetpractice

I don’t think the writers at 20th Century Fox ever realized how right they were when they wrote that line from Men in Black: “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know that.” In context it fits the movie so perfectly, but even outside the film it’s brilliant such that it endures decades later.

That’s what I liked about World War Z (the novel, not the movie) I am not much of a zombie fan, but the story is less about zombies than about humanity’s inability to deal with an existential crisis: first we ignore it, then we deny it, then the governments take clandestine steps to contain it (while still denying it to avoid panic) which then fail or even work the opposite of their intended effect, then megapanic sets in, then finally, after countless unneccesary losses and sacrifices, we finally figure out how to contain things.