Charles Liu
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Podcast Appearances
Are you different from a rock or a steak?
Yeah, yeah.
And of course, you can do something like what happened in World War Z, where the author said, we actually don't know why these zombies violate the laws of physics so completely.
And yet they do.
I didn't like World War Z because the zombies ran.
In the movie...
they ran and they were very fast.
In the book, they were actually quite slow.
You read the book?
Of course.
The Battle of Yonkers?
Did you not see that?
No.
Oh, incredible story.
Without ruining, spoiling the story for everybody, basically, the army wants to make a big show of force to stop these zombies.
And so they bring the soldiers over and they have all this firepower.
Turns out that
They're routed by the zombies because the army has not thought through how to stop them.
And so again, humans in our hubris thinking that we can control force of nature when in fact nature comes back and tells us, no, it's not going to happen.
And what lesson was there to start with?