We all enjoy a good zombie story and contemplating what we would do if we were in that scenario. However, if it actually did happen I doubt anyone would actually enjoy it to it's end. The thought of running around all day without frequent showers and scrounging for food is not a happy place in my mind. 

It is thought, that in order to raise our children's immunities, it is best they drink their mother's milk, play in the sand box, get dirty and accidently swallow a little dirt once in a while. We expose them to dead or partially dead microbes to boost their immunities against those agents that would otherwise harm or even kill them. All these things we do with good intention, but once in a while things go wrong. The mother's milk might carry German Measles, a scratch on the child's skin comes into contact with flesh eating disease, a deep breath could ingest a deadly airborne fungi and vaccinations might become tainted. The weaker the individual the more likely infection will set in and the more likely harm will come to them.

This is one way I see America, as a living organism. It certainly has had it's fair share of exposure to all kinds of elements. From Confederation to civil war and MLK riots, conflicts around the world, presidential assassinations, scandals, conspiracies, political interference, foreign entanglements etc. But America has always been strong and got through those troubling times. Her strength being the people, their dreams and hope for the future. And like a flying buttress the collective consciousness of  all people around the world who desired similar hopes and opportunities kept America strong and healthy. 

It was from countries most dissimilar to America, like the former USSR, China, Cuba and South America did that desire burn the greatest. With that desire did the walls of the US stand the strongest. Now as the world leaders try to homogenize the world's people and economies, I see the nation states collapsing into a gelatinous mess. It is good to share ideals with other  people, but after you have killed a family member the hatred makes the eyes blind, the ears deaf and the heart weary. When there is only one kingdom there is no where else to go. Instead of borders built on agreements, we could see a world divided by hatred with no safe place to go.

Is America terminally infected? Has she caught yellow fever and like a human host, turning into a black mush from the inside out? The symptoms are certainly there. Let's hope the cure is as well. Now, did you just see that? Did you feel it? "Hope" suddenly means a lot less today than it use to.