The movie, Plan 9 from Outer Space, was really ahead of its time. In it, aliens invade earth and use the walking undead to instill fear and create panic, which was part of their plan (the ninth one, apparently) to conquer our unsuspecting planet.
Ahead of its time, I say? Yes. Despite it being the worst movie ever made, the underlying symbolism is identical to that of the meme war. Whether he knew it or not, Ed Wood created a masterpiece. I think the creators of They Live were also onto something, but their message was more blatant (though the movie's execution was not much better).
Instead of Earth, let's say that the to-be-conquered planet is Western Civilization.
There are three groups of people: aliens, zombies, and humans.
Humans: there are only a few true humans left. By humans, of course I mean uninfected humans: humans who work for their own best interests, who want their children to do the same, and who want their civilization to prosper. As I said, in Western Civilization, there are only a few of us left.
The aliens are people who are the enemies of Western Civilization. The West has had enemies from the beginning: Muslims, Communists, barbarians, to name a few. Their goal is, and has always been, to bring about our collapse and to conquer us.
However, the West has always been too powerful for a frontal assault to work. The aliens have tried and tried again to vanquish us, to quash us, but to no avail. Their latest plan (plan 9?) is to use zombies.
Zombies are not the walking dead of the movies, or even the zombies of Haitian culture, though they are much more like the latter than the former.
No, today's zombie is someone who has been programmed by a foreign invader (i.e. a meme that was planted by an alien) to work against his own interests, or the interests of his own people. For a good example how zombies exist in nature, have a look at this video. Watch in horror as the snail is perfectly exploited by the Leucochloridium paradoxum parasite. The zombie snail is programmed to climb to the topmost tree in order to make itself a target for birds. When the bird eats the snail (or its eye stalk) the parasite moves on to parasitize the bird. The mind-controlling parasite then moves through the bird's digestive tract to await being eaten by another unsuspecting snail. The reason this is so effective is that the parasite controls the snail's brain.
Now, imagine that instead of a physical parasite, the victim's brain is invaded by a mind virus: a parasite without any physical existence, a parasite that exists only in thought-form: an idea, passed from person to person like a venereal disease. That's what a meme is, and when the meme is intentionally crafted to be a weapon against the victim who believes it, it is what they call an endotoxic meme: a meme that works against its host.
So, the aliens (that's THEM) control the zombies (that's many of US) into working against our own interests. How? By voting for bills that are designed to disarm us, to weaken us. By infecting the entire academic world and turning it into a virus distribution system. By infecting the media to make copies of itself to spread to everyone who watches television. These mind-viruses, these endotoxic memes, so permeate our society, through and through, that people don't even realize how bizarre they are.
Who are the aliens today? It doesn't matter. The aliens are, as they have always been, too weak to take us on directly. They can only fight us by using their zombie horde. Without their zombies in our midst, controlled from the outside, infecting our children, our institutions, our media, and the young minds of students, they present no threat.
That's why I'm writing this. My goal is not to kill the aliens. That just leads to scapegoating. I'm not going to fight the zombies:they are my countrymen who have been savagely victimized by the alien memes in this meme war. My goal is to liberate the zombies. Once the zombies wake up (the first step is for them to realize how they've been manipulated) they will naturally start to resist the memes given them by their alien masters. They must resist. It does not matter who the aliens are: if we can resist them and avoid being turned into zombies, they are absolutely powerless. It us not up to us consign their ideas to the toxic waste dump, to laugh in their faces when they try to convince us to sacrifice our own lives, our own happiness, our own wealth, and our childrens' future, our very civilization for their alien agenda.
If you are reading this, you might be human. If you understand it, there is yet hope.
