{"id":98116,"date":"2016-06-06T01:02:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T01:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/06\/cracked-every-apocalypse-movie-can-be-boiled\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T03:18:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T03:18:18","slug":"cracked-every-apocalypse-movie-can-be-boiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/06\/cracked-every-apocalypse-movie-can-be-boiled\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-98116 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/06\/cracked-every-apocalypse-movie-can-be-boiled\/attachment\/98117\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o86bwhGzS61qz5q5lo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o86bwhGzS61qz5q5lo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o86bwhGzS61qz5q5lo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cracked.tumblr.com\/post\/145413860371\" target=\"_blank\">cracked<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Every apocalypse movie can be boiled down to this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost everyone has been killed by ______, so now some survivors must fight the _______ and maybe the other survivors who turned out to be assholes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s the same whether the blank is filled in by zombies, robots, or inclement weather. The number one cause of death in <i>The Walking Dead<\/i> universe is getting eaten by a zombie, and the number two cause of death is getting murdered by a psychopath. Those who survive are the ones who best learn to adapt to those threats.<\/p>\n<p>But actually, some apocalypse stories involve diseases wiping everyone out (like Contagion or Stephen King\u2019s The Stand), but in reality, that would be every apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>Think of it this way: In the Civil War, only 1 out of every 3 deaths was caused by getting shot or blown apart by a cannon. The rest were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/general-article\/death-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\">caused by disease<\/a>. Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/PublicHealthPolicy\/MilitaryMedicine\/18100\" target=\"_blank\">85 percent of American military medical evacuations<\/a> from the Middle East are the result of non-battle injuries and disease. In other words, the moment you remove someone from everyday health care and hygiene, you find out that sickness and infections are the real apocalypse. So, for millions upon millions of people, the crisis would be \u201cI can\u2019t treat my chronic, debilitating illness anymore,\u201d not \u201cMy zombie neighbor Chad is trying to eat me again.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_21251_5-things-every-movie-gets-wrong-about-apocalypse.html?wa_user1=4&amp;wa_user2=Weird+World&amp;wa_user3=article&amp;wa_user4=companion\" target=\"_blank\">5 Things Every Movie Gets Wrong About the Apocalypse<\/a><\/b><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cracked: Every apocalypse movie can be boiled down to this: \u201cAlmost everyone has been killed by ______, so now some survivors must fight the _______ and maybe the other survivors who turned out to be assholes.\u201d And that\u2019s the same whether the blank is filled in by zombies, robots, or inclement weather. The number one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/06\/cracked-every-apocalypse-movie-can-be-boiled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1665,5419,12312,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98118,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98116\/revisions\/98118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}