The following diary pages were recovered by physical anthropologists in North America and stand as one of the many shocking historical documents now-recoverd that paint our overall portrait of the momentous events of the early 21st century.
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Document: HD 6002010 2012B
Recovered: Former United States [Colorado Territories]
Author: Unknown
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12; im don riting. nthing lft 2 say. its ovr.
L8R;-0
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11.12
cnt thnk strt. ANRGY/ fuk it. goin mad,, dnt car whts nxt. fuk this stipd wrld.
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10.17
2day i lokt myslef in. no resen 2 leve. i must hav ben infekted but i dont rember whn. i cant thnk strate and i try to rite but teh wrds ar gon. evry1 is infektd we r helplss. i watchd what 2 do but it dindt matr and now im fukt. we r fukt. im infektd and its ovr. i jst want it 2 b ovr. ill do anythng just mak th fear stop. th tv says we r fukt an it was rite all along.
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8.17.12
Fuk i no im fuking infekted. i cant fucking think strait and im just pist-off and angry and i want to fucking punch th world. the tv says all this shit and i dont evn no what the fuck they are saying now and everybody is going crazy lately. i dont no how i got infected but i feel it… i no evrybdy is infeckted too cuz you can see in their eyes how scard they are and how they cant thnk or do anything but wait and do what the tv says to protekt ourselvs. i cant evn rite any shit down anymor cuz the words ar all stupid and i dont know why i cant say what i want. i dont even know if im a fucking zombie yet or no but i no its not gonna be much longr.
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6/12/2012
Nobdy goes out anymor. evryone is inside watching about what the threts are and what to be afraid of an what you should protekt yerself agianst. I don;t feel rite. like my brain is slow and dumb and i cant think or rite and shit. i think im alrdy infketd but i kdont know how becuze nothing bit me but stil im all edgy and afraid. evryone looks like they mite be infekted and they just watch about this shit on tv and nobdy talks anything but bad stuff that is gonna happen and shit like that. it pisses me off how stupid this world is and how all you ever hear about is all this negative shit and we all know its about to fucking come crashing down but it just keeps on getting worse so the only thng left 2 do is watch the tv and see it all happening and hear what to do next. there was this shit about how all the fucking reactors in japan are getting worse and the radiation might be getting people sick and that that might be how the zombies get started but it just pisses me off becuase the japs are supposed to be all good at technology and its their fucking reactors that are fucked and going to kill us all. its jsut so stupid it pisses me off how dumb all this shit is and whos falt is it?! Id like to shoot the fuckers who started this shit.
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3/20/2012
I saw on tv that they thoght the mayn calndr was off but they don;t know how close and th apocalypse could rly start any time, so it may alrdy be going and thats what i think because everyone is acting crazy and everybody just stars at each other and nobody trusts anybody cuz they think there are infected people alrddy walkin around infecting others. People are talking about looting stors for food and guns and the tv shows all this horrible shit and what else can you do but get out there and get some of it too before its gone>? ive been txting my friend and we are making all kinds of plans on what to d o and stocking up on stuff becuase its only a matr of time before it gets here.
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1/1/2012
It’s 2012… This must be it… everyone is afraid and ive been hering all kinds of stuff about how The zombie apocalypse is real! Somehow I knew… we all knew somehow! I think all we can do is get ready to fight. There has been alot about it on tv and the experts show us what to do an what not to do and what to watch out for and how to stay safe. evrybdy is blaming science so the churchs ar full and they say that this is what the bible said and that we all need to pray and fight evil and that they no who the evil ones is and how we should fite them.
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December 15, 2011
Something is wrong… I can’t explain it. I just feel it. I see it on everyone’s faces. There is fear there, I don’t know how it got there. Im getting sick of waiting for this shit. I talkd to my friend and we made lots of plans about what we are doing when the zombie apocalypse starts, we saw a bunch of stuff on the internet about how it may already be starting in south america and someplace in africa and how it was government agiencies that did it testing some weapon but now they cant get it to stop like they thought. They thought they could control people by making them stupid. Like by cutting off their brain they could tell them what to do and make them soldiers and stuff. Like tell them what there enemy was even if it wasnt and making them violent and making them fight. I’m ready to fight. Weve bought a bunch of guns and knives and a bunch of taktical stuff and a crossbow and im fucking ready. ill blow a fucking zombies head off if it gets anywhere near me!! I wont let tem infect me, id rather fight the whole fucking world then let them control me!
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August 30, 2011
All the movies this summer were about Zombies or the apocalypse or both. I saw them all, I can’t look away. Like a train wreck… they make you squirm and you don;t want to admit that its possible but its possible… the Myans knew it millions of years ago, and it keeps getting closer. Their are fires burning right in my back yard. There are earthquakes hurricanes and tidal waves and floods.. and why won’t it rain?? All over the world there is violence and riots and hate… it is the End Times. I watched expersts talking on televison about what the bible says and it says we are fucked. I keep watching tv because it is full of information. they know whats going on and they are telling us what to do to get ready but i wish it would just happen already. I’m tired of waiting and I’m tired of life being so miserable.
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June 12, 2011
I just watched a video on YouTube that all my friends were telling me about. They had seen it on TV. There is really a spore that causes Zombification of ants! There were other videos too. It is completely possible to turn an animal into a mindless zombie! I saw a show about it on the Histroy Channel. They had experts talk about past Zombie threats and how they were overcome, and how the next one is inevitable. I am beginning to believe. That scares me most of all.
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April 3, 2011
I never thought I’d admit to this: but I am beginning to fear the “Zombie Apocalypse”… It sounds so silly! How could something so fanciful ever occur? What would it be? A disease? Could scientists create a molecule that attacks the human brain – destroying all but the primary motor functions? I just can’t believe it but somehow the idea itself is infectious. The idea is spreading. Spreading through movies and TV and video games and the internet and by word of mouth… It comes up in conversation as casually as the weather! My friends are buying weapons! They are preparing. Maybe I should prepare to?… but what would be the face of this evil? My friends are buying guns with the expectation of turning them on their neighbors… maybe the infection is real. They have already forfited their bodies and minds… eyes glued to flickering tvs and computer screens. How do you fight the infection of minds infected with the fear of infection?
I simply found this to be fun to read. I like the idea you’ve fleshed out here of a “zombie apocalypse” being created in the minds of people through fear and paranoia, and thus creating a zombie apocalypse of our own design. You’ve touched on a lot of our lives today – the fear of “the other,” a fear of science and technology, an irrational inclination toward violence and anger. I like how you illustrate how this fear and paranoia actually spreads like a disease, and seems to “cut off the brain” of those it inhabits. Like so many aspects of our lives to today, we suffer not due to some outside influence, but through a self-fulfilling prophecy. I like the demise of language you lay out too, ending with what appears to be communication through “text-speak,” a transition that I feel we are actually witnessing.
Good job man. Like I said, this was highly enjoyable.
Just out of curiosity, I’d kind of like to know more about the future culture that finds and records this diary. What do you see rising in the wake of our own destruction?
I mostly just love zombies..Ha..But really the idea of taking a seemingly irrational fear of a movie monster and translating it into a totally cognicent backsplash combining the current state of events in the world with a dash of pop culture thrown in is marvelous. The actuality of the disease is unknown and unnecessary..Sometimes you have to kill the ones you love to save yourself..
Thanks guys, this piece was fun to write, I’m glad it was fun to read!
I considered a number of different formats for this idea, I think the “diary” worked for the most part, but I’m not sure I communicated all my ideas as clearly as, say, a poem might have. I may still go back through and revise this a bit…