Fear the Walking Dead survival rule of the week: All need guidance

Fear the Walking Dead how to do things the right way

After spending nearly all of the first half of this season of Fear The Walking Dead out of contact with each other, Strand and Alicia finally reunited in the midseason finale.

Almost immediately, Strand confessed something he’d been struggling with for nearly as long as he’s been separated from Alicia: He realizes that he needs her to help him run the tower properly.

Strand, in spite of his initial belief that his super-pragmatic utilitarianism is the ideal means of running his community, has come to realize that it isn’t enough. Strand is neither so foolish nor egomaniacal as to believe he is flawless. He’s come to recognize that even if he doesn’t know exactly what’s missing, he knows that Alicia can help improve the leadership and bridge the gap between the man he knows he is and the hero and leader he desperately wants to be.

A zombie apocalypse will create a total societal collapse, destroying governments as we know them and mainly just leaving ordinary survivors to try to keep things together. You’re going to have people in charge of communities with no idea what they’re doing.

If it happens, they will need someone to show them ways of dealing with the problems that will face communities in a survival situation. Whether that’s resource management, crowd control, military coordination, or simply the human element that’s necessary to turn a disparate collection of people into a cohesive group, people will need someone to help them navigate these troubled waters.

I imagine that, for most groups, it won’t be just one person doing the guiding, as there probably won’t be a person who knows all of the solutions, but a collection of people, each showing how to tackle the problems they specialize in.

Learning how to survive a zombie apocalypse won’t be easy, but it gets easier if people show us the right way to do it.