The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: We ARE stronger together
By Liam O'Leary
1) It’s Called A “Brain Trust” For A Reason
The term “Brain Trust” was originally popularized during the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and was meant to refer to his team of advisors, many of whom were esteemed intellectuals. Since then, any time a person or government has amassed a group highly intelligent individuals together to focus on an issue or task, the term tends to find its way into people’s vocabularies.
Regardless of the origin of the term, it’s something we as people can put together in a zombie apocalypse.
Look at how the Alliance dealt with Beta’s siege of the tower: They had Luke use his knowledge of sound equipment (Along with, probably, some advice from Eugene before he left — He did do this same thing for the Saviors a while back), Father Gabriel coordinated the escape plan, Lydia was called upon to sniff out the Whisperers within the horde, and Daryl and Carol laid traps throughout the tower to slow the Whisperers’ advance. All of that was people of different skillsets putting their heads together to try to ensure that their group survived the biggest threat they had ever faced.
If you should find yourself in a zombie apocalypse with other people, this is the sort of thing you should do.
Don’t know how to deal with an enemy? Maybe one of your group members is a combat veteran, and knows strategies to fight off your foes.
Need to deal with zombies too numerous to go toe-to-toe with? Maybe someone in your group knows pyrotechnics or sound engineering, and can distract them.
Hostiles invading your base? Maybe you got a trapper or explosives expert in your group, who can make your enemy’s entry very costly.
Maybe you’re dealing with all three, and having all of these people in your group means they can come together and devise separate strategies for repelling such an onslaught.
When things are too daunting for one person alone to conceive of a way out, maybe the infusion of other sets of eyes and brains into the picture can make things manageable again.