Isolationism
First off, in a lot of these zombie stories, is the constant distrust of human beings, especially when you first meet, as well as fighting among humans,and only trusting a core group. if there ever was a zombie apocalypse, doing this would be as logical as letting zombies roam free while shooting every human being on sight. as Abraham Lincoln once said "A house divided against itself cannot stand." in proof look at the history of the Native Americans. yes for the most part,what happened was white mans fault, but if all tribes united to kick out white man say before the french and Indian war or during. history would be a whole another story but they stayed divided, different tribes fought different sides of the war and you know what happened after. point is, if you stay an isolationist in this zombie world your already dead. what should have been written is someone, group, or form of government uniting all the people to fight off this zombie threat.
Gun Propaganda
Speaking of forms of government there is another issue that happens a lot in these narratives. finding a community taking peoples guns to keep things safe only to be proven wrong by our newly arrived main characters or having zombies invade the place. two words, Zombie Apocalypse why in hell would any community do something like this, your at war with a brainless dead plague and your getting rid of a large army for a small security team (that sounds like the sort of logic are troops should use in battle. THE LAST SENTENCE YOU READ WAS SARCASM) point is they need every armed person they can get and they shouldn't distrust anyone unless there a stupid criminal choosing to still do bad deeds but that's a rare exception and anyways if you point out how this criminal needs to work together with everyone for s(he)'s own survival. they'll help and you'll only need someone to watch over s(he). point is, this kind of story doesn't need to deal with this political issue.and if they still chose to do it they need to execute it in a non preachy way having both points of view on the issue seem to be right.
zombies are the threat not humans in this kind of narrative. i get that you need to have tension from your main characters but you can do that in other ways that are more believable and without personal agendas. Have someone get scared and let fear lead them to do something stupid or in a fight let someone get shell shock, that i can believe it feels authentic.
Gun Propaganda
Speaking of forms of government there is another issue that happens a lot in these narratives. finding a community taking peoples guns to keep things safe only to be proven wrong by our newly arrived main characters or having zombies invade the place. two words, Zombie Apocalypse why in hell would any community do something like this, your at war with a brainless dead plague and your getting rid of a large army for a small security team (that sounds like the sort of logic are troops should use in battle. THE LAST SENTENCE YOU READ WAS SARCASM) point is they need every armed person they can get and they shouldn't distrust anyone unless there a stupid criminal choosing to still do bad deeds but that's a rare exception and anyways if you point out how this criminal needs to work together with everyone for s(he)'s own survival. they'll help and you'll only need someone to watch over s(he). point is, this kind of story doesn't need to deal with this political issue.and if they still chose to do it they need to execute it in a non preachy way having both points of view on the issue seem to be right.
zombies are the threat not humans in this kind of narrative. i get that you need to have tension from your main characters but you can do that in other ways that are more believable and without personal agendas. Have someone get scared and let fear lead them to do something stupid or in a fight let someone get shell shock, that i can believe it feels authentic.
