I actually fully agree with that excerpt, and I'm really curious to see how people react to the ending considering they don't have to actually DO what Joel ends up doing.

But on the whole the article on the whole is too acerbic and sarcastic for me to even understand the point.

> In a literal sense, there’s the gore of the Cordyceps fungus turning humans into unthinking drones (“They’re not zombies,” I hear you sniff, but they’re basically zombies).

He "hears me sniff"? I wasn't even thinking that. I can enjoy a piece that's hostile to the reader but this reads like he's trying to be contrarian