The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: People suck

2) People are arrogant.

Have you ever noticed that the biggest know-it-alls have a tendency to be clueless? This is because arrogance goes hand-in-hand with ignorance. Always has, always will.

I don’t believe people should convince themselves that they’re sewage or made of glass or anything like that, but, somewhere along the way, far too many people have convinced themselves that they’re untouchable, that everything they do is great, and anyone who thinks otherwise has a head filled with gravel, and…that’s a problem.

Right up there with people being ignorant of the threat posed by a zombie outbreak, I think it’s a safe bet that a good part of why an outbreak could evolve into a apocalypse is down to people who have the means of doing something about the problem, failing to out of the erroneous belief “It could never happen to us”.

This could end up playing a large role in why the populous at-large would be left out of the loop when the outbreak begins, because people who have the means to warn everyone simply assume that the problem is nothing to worry about, much less warn people about it, and so ignore the initial zombie incidents, leaving everyone blindsided when things escalate.

This goes beyond the beginning of the apocalypse, though: This problem will continue to plague people long after the outbreak, as it will rear it’s ugly head over and over again, causing problems whenever and wherever it appears.

Think about any time you’ve ever seen or heard of someone being asked to do something or spot a problem, say “I’ll do it later” or just plain ignore it, and then, sooner or later, that problem comes back to bite them, that is arrogance. It might not be overt, it might not be in your face, but, a part of why that happens is because, on some level, the person says to themselves that it’s either no big deal, or that that would never happen. I mean, re-imagine that scenario I just posited…but in a world where zombies exist: Suddenly, someone being asked to do something like tighten a fence, replace a broken or rusted wall panel, or simply inspect the perimeter, then ignoring it because they think “That will never happen!” takes on a whole new (And frightening) connotation.

If you end up as part of a group in a zombie apocalypse, and you have a situation like this –Where a person is asked to do something regarding the security, maintenance, or supplying of your base and they decide not to do it — you need to get that person’s ass in gear and remind them that the moment they think that zombies or other people can’t attack them, is the moment they become vulnerable to such attacks.