Good morning everyone! My name is Blake Horridge. I'm the associate registrar here
at CMC. I just started about a year and a half ago so chances are if you're an
alum from long that you don't know who I am. I'm not Elizabeth Morgan that's
probably the most important piece of information when you think my hair is
not nearly as nice. Today I'm gonna talk about two things that I'm really
passionate about liberal arts and the zombie apocalypse. Now if you're living
under a rock you wouldn't know that zombies are the in thing these days.
Zombies have taken over popular culture in many different ways there's
literature like World War Z by Max Brooks which is a great book okay movie.
Um, The Walking Dead popular show on AMC now into its fourth season now so this
is very exciting. Plants vs. Zombies, zombies have invaded
your cell phones. Millions of people have downloaded games like this on their cell
phones and there's countless others if you go to the App Store or whatever
and search zombies you'll come up with tons of games and apps and things.
There's even real-life experiences this is a Zombie Walk in Boston people dress
up like zombies just to kind of walk hang out be zombies together it's people
are really taken apart of this culture. So, I love zombies and there's something
else that I know a lot about. This: the CMC curriculum. Now if you're seniors you
know this very well cuz you know what you've got left, if you're freshman maybe
you're still learning about it but as you can see we cover a lot at CMC and
that's on purpose. We are a liberal arts college that's our big thing so math,
science, foreign language, social sciences, humanities, and even the physical
education. Now, I thought about this for today's talk and thought to myself okay
what can I contribute to this discussion about the liberal arts and action, and
what I've come to the conclusion is that CMC is preparing you for the zombie
apocalypse whether you know it or not. I'm gonna break it up into three
different categories: first, when zombies come calling
how does CMC prepare you for the beginning of the zombie apocalypse when
they're starting to take over the world. Now much to the chagrin of some of our
students, math and science will both be crucial for the beginning of the zombie
apocalypse in pretty much all modern tellings of how zombies come about there
is a naturalistic cause. In George Romero's Night of the Living Dead it was
a it was gas from Venus that was raising the dead. In more modern takes it's
usually a virus or something like that that's turning people either into
zombies or back into zombies when they've died. In either case you have to
have some understanding of science and the math that goes along with that in
order to tackle the zombie menace.
Psychology. Psychology is important in two ways first zombies were once human
that's point than being zombies and we understand that there's probably some
level of human brain function there. Having an understanding of how people
work in that respect will help us understand zombies better and how we can
defeat them. In addition, zombie apocalypses are very
stressful. Psychology helps us understand what do people do in these situations
how can we handle someone who is freaking out because their loved one has
just come back from the dead. It's a justifiable stressor but dealing
with that is a key thing. And last physical education. Anyone who's seen
Zombieland rule number one in surviving Zombieland is cardio. We're not just
making you get out of bed and do some things we are making sure you don't die
in the first days of the zombie apocalypse. So take those PE classes as
much as you can so you are prepared. Now when zombies have been around for a
while the question is not just how do we survive the zombie apocalypse but how do
we keep society going how do we rebuild?And there's a few different ways to do
that. First history. A zombie apocalypse would not be the first time in human
history that we've dealy with some sort of cataclysmic event.
Diseases have struck major, wars have happened, people have recovered. Knowing
what's happened before and how humanity has dealt with it actually aids us moving
forward. Economics: there probably isn't gonna be a market economy after the
zombies I'm just gonna say that but they're still going to be supply and
demand, they're still going to be allocation of resources and how you
manage assets. It may be bullets instead of dollars but
it's still going to be something that you're gonna have to manage and
understand. So economics is still going to have a place in helping soc-
society move on. Government's the same way. It may be a very different structure
we have but no matter what happens people are going to need to live
together and know how to work as a society together. Understanding the
various kinds of governments that have existed and what might be the best for
their particular scenario is going to be key as humanity tries to rebuild. Foreign
language: the world become much smaller after the zombies and let's say you're
here in LA when it happens. Just go down the street and you'll have people
speaking Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, a whole plethora of different languages.
If you only know one you are putting yourself at a disadvantage. Don't do that
to yourself. This is why we care that you know something else so you can actually
encounter the rest of the world and work with them. And finally the big questions:
literature and foreign literature at their core are about stories they
provide a way for people to tell about an experience about an idea that they
have and that's gonna be crucial post zombies. Whether it's telling the story
of humanity after it's happened or reminding us of what can be in the world
even that's got screwed up by zombies. Literature serves as that focus point
where we can go and try to know the world a little bit better. Philosophy:
zombies bring up a lot of great questions mostly about what does it mean
to be human. Zombies have come back from the dead but
do we still do they have the same ethical status how do we deal with that?
What if zombies start having some human characteristics but not others? Do they
have a different class? Philosophy is also going to be important when we're
dealing with the zombie plague. And religious studies: resurrection and
rebirth are important themes in many of religion how do we deal with that now
that things have come back from the dead? Do we have to reshape our religious view
of the world? How does various churches and faith is gonna look when this
happens? Knowing something about that now will help you moving forward. Now that's
all well and good but you could be saying well okay I'm gonna be I'm a
science major and why do I have to do anything else I can just do the sciency
stuff when the zombie apocalypse comes. There's a lot of reasons why the liberal
arts in particular give you an advantage. Now I've put up a little thing there of
humans versus zombies in Claremont which is a game that happens I think once a
year around the five Cs and it's no surprise that Max uh Max Brooks in his book
World War Z talks about the five Cs being one of the last bastions defend
themselves against the zombie apocalypse. Specifically the five C's and their ones
later on years after everyone else has been kind of taken down the government
comes back and tries to help - the five Cs have held down the fort. And this is why
I think why. First, adaptability we don't know how many scientists are gonna be
alive when the zombies are done. Ee don't know how many poets we don't know how
musicians or economists or lawyers or politicians. Being able to adapt being
able to serve more than one kind of role is going to be crucial. If all we have is
a bunch of economists after the zombie apocalypse things are not going to be
great when you're trying to cure diseases or write poems. Holistic
thinking. The world now and the world after zombies are going to be full of
complicated problems. Being able to look at them from multiple perspectives is
going to be crucial to solving those problems.
Being able to take more than just one view will allow people to survive where
others fail. And last retaining culture. It's one thing to survive the zombie
apocalypse. There are people who are survivalists that can do this who go
down their bunker and be fine for a couple years. It's a very different thing
to thrive after the zombie apocalypse and this is where the liberal arts gives
you an edge. You can help retain the things of culture that we appreciate
more than just surviving day to day. Bringing back government and arts and
all the things that we appreciate as a culture. The liberal arts set you up to
appreciate those things and help bring them back. Now you may be saying zombies aren't
real. I would say not yet but, even if the zombie apocalypse never happens that's
just one of many apocalypses that can happen. We have set up a lot of man made
ways to destroy the world. Whether it's through nukes, biological or chemical
warfare, there are a lot of different things that can really throw off all of
humanity if used in the wrong ways. All these things can bring about the end of
the world. And even if humans weren't involved you've got things like super
volcanoes. There's one under Yellowstone that if explodes will basically put us
into another Ice Age. Or meteors we could go the way the dinosaurs. There are a lot
of things that can happen that can throw off the world as we know it that still
require us to be able to act in good ways. This is my last point. When the
zombies come this is going to be your biggest weapon and so I tell you is
while you're here at a liberal arts school or remembering back to the what
you experienced at CMC remember that you can either use it or lose it. There is a
zombie happy to take your brain for you if you do not want it yourself. Thank you.
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