We see what we think we see, not always what is before our eyes. We can train ourselves to avoid the darkness.
Updated Jan 24, 2023
An Asian Demon Hunter’s Manifesto
Our world is changing through this pandemic, and many people seem confused. However, we can start to see the light through the shadows.
Shoki: A Zombie Fighter’s Manifesto
Enter the fight, for we are attracted to the hunt for demons, the undead, especially zombies.
As we watch zombies thrust and attack within our mind’s eye, we believe that we can control these undead. It’s okay, for death is an illusion. So teaches Buddhist didacticism and Japanese ghost stories. We can control the re-dead, the post-dead, the reanimated, the unborn, who are mostly composed of yin. We are attracted to the living who possess elements of yang. Those, the living, are in a sense like just like us, the mutated de-evolved reconstituted hungry ghost material. The original living beings of purity died long ago.
Pop open a root beer, stuff some popcorn into your mouth, and become Buddhist monks or Shinto exorcist wannabes. We want to defeat the mythic concept of evil and death. Instead, we fight the post-human existence of the normalcy, the mundane, or the mediocrity of postmodernity.
We are not attracted to blood, nor do we bite; instead, we attack with good intentions. And we shall take your energy or chi. You, the corporate multinationals, are attracted to our blood money. You want bailouts, while you evict us onto the streets. We the homeless, living in hell, want revenge.
We are the ghost hunters, and we need to feel our enemies with our own fists like they do in those kung fu films. These are battles we fight all the time. We will not be pulled down and bloodied by rising taxes, rising insurance rates, and rising medical fees while being embarrassed by our political demons, or the political demons of the Heisei (1989- ) period, “peace everywhere,” which was initiated by the great Japanese recession. The great earthquake of 1995 and the doomsday cult of Aum Shinryo.
We know the truth, for you were never alive. Indeed, you are fox spirits pretending to be human. You aren’t even hungry ghosts lost trying to be reborn. Instead, you peel our skins from our backs and pretend to be what you are not: human. We are the real humans, and we will hunt you down. Our day will come. Jizo, Ksitigarbha, another ally will save us.
Shoki and the Sword of Magic
Our magical sword will protect us from your zombie attacks. We are ready to fight the demons.
We will not be pulled down and bloodied by high gas prices while watching oil propaganda puking out about how they care and how they clean up the environment that they helped to destroy.
Too many of our revolutionary friends are addicted to drugs trying to cope in the oppression of the mind. Too many of our friends are in jails because of drug related charges. You will not legalize drugs and make it a social responsibility. Instead it remains a criminal offense to dream. It is not the drugs you have illegalized, it is the will to dream.
We have a secret drug of choice, a lethal fantasmagoria called zombie power because we all need to be awaken from our temporary states of undead as we are ruled by the undead politicians biting on our backs. Indeed, we have become the fighters of the undead: those who stand up in this epic battle. We must win. Zombie powder, composed of small parts of zombie essence, is our antidote to your poisons of the mind, for it takes evil to kill evil. Only the undead can kill the undead.
We will defeat those enemies that can be defeated in the blinding light of illusion and delusion. We are unbalanced by the bad political, social and economical feng shui. Someone needs to lead us home, the promise land. We are the greatest zombie hunters/ghosts ever and this is our manifesto of liberation. We will extinguish evil and return to the original face of purity.
Join us if you dare!
–written by DOC NIRVANA, a crazed Zombie Hunter who teaches English in the Heartland
AKA Dr. Wayne Stein