The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse!

Every society has a foundation.  For some the foundation lies in the mists of time, way back before anyone can remember.  These societies often rely on myth to explain their foundation.  Other societies however have more recent and memorable foundations.  Sometimes people who were alive then reported on the founding moments of the society.

I guess this is sort of like that:  a report on the foundation of a new society, in the midst of the ashes and skeletons of the old.  But unlike most societies, in this society there never was any specific meeting of some people who declared “We are *a* people.”  This society, which more or less came into being by default, like some unforeseen hand flipped a switch, is more defined by what it replaced.  Hopefully someone with a measure of intellectual curiosity will come along and find this account someday.  But it is highly doubtful that anyone will scratch their heads one day and ask “I wonder where we came from.”  Not the way things are going.

That doesn’t really matter, to be completely honest.  I write because I can.  Because I am one of the few left in this world that do.  And as long as I am holed up in this library, which was stocked with enough canned and preserved food to feed a small city for weeks, thanks to Cold War paranoia and bureaucratic oversight, I will be able to finish my history at least.  Its more likely that someone will find me here and do me in though, long before there is ever any danger of me starving to death.

When I think back to how this whole thing started, I can easily point to a single moment in history.  I was just a kid, about 15 then, but I knew that what was happening would change things for ever.  I knew because that night, we watched a member of the New Ethics Party, a Dr. David Owens, be elected President of the United States, and then, after we turned off the TV, my father left the house and drove the family car off a cliff outside of the city I grew up in.  We were of course devastated:  it seems, however that my mother was not in the least bit surprised.

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