The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: The Old Rules Don’t Apply
By Liam O'Leary
The Walking Dead, the old rules DON’T apply.
AMC has aired the second episode of The Walking Dead’s final season, “Acheron Part 2,” and things are most definitely changing, and time marches on.
If you’re reading this, you know I have a set of rules for surviving a zombie apocalypse, and I believe people should follow those rules to survive.
That said, the rules that I have are, generally, not the rules society, whether officially or unofficially, adheres to. We all know that society cares immensely about things that maybe it shouldn’t, or at least not nearly as much as other things.
As we saw in this week’s episode of The Walking Dead, a lot of those rules don’t mean that much once the dead start eating people. Things that people once held dear can quickly become meaningless in a zombie apocalypse because survival takes precedent.
In this week’s Survival Rule Of The Week, I’ll discuss a few things that will mean less and less as the apocalypse wears on. I will also give a warning to those who may seek to desperately cling to those things: It will not work out for you, and the longer you try, the worse things will become. In the zombie apocalypse, if it isn’t aimed at keeping you and the people in your group alive, then it’s a good chance that the things you care about, especially if they’re ideas from the pre-apocalypse world, aren’t going to be worth a damn; They’ll either lead you astray, or just be dead weight.