The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Truth shall set you free

3) A threat isn’t gone until it’s actually gone.

I got the impression that the communities genuinely believed that, once Alpha was out of the picture, the Whisperers were, pretty much, wrapped up. Oh, how wrong they were…

To say nothing of how crazy he was (I’ll get to that in a bit), the fact remained that Beta, Alpha’s loyal right-hand man, was still very much alive, and fully capable of taking over the Whisperers in Alpha’s absence. For the group to assume that they were almost done with the Whisperers is…naive.

Sadly, this is a problem we often have: When we get rid of the most obvious part of a problem, we assume we’ve gotten rid of the problem. Out of sight, out of mind, as it were.

This, however, would be a mistake. When we do this, what we’re doing is lulling ourselves into a false sense of security, which actually makes us more vulnerable than we were when we first met the problem, because, now, we’ve let our guard down and exposed ourselves. If your problem, as is the case in The Walking Dead right now, is hostiles, this becomes the perfect time for them to attack.

The truth of the matter is: Until a threat you’re dealing with in the zombie apocalypse is actually gone — The last zombie in the herd slain, the lost hostile defeated, the last cloud passed — the threat is not gone.

The biggest lies we tell, are the ones we tell ourselves.