Where and what is Zombie Island?

with apologies to Blaise http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11511a.htm

Quite simply: the here and now. Here being this island Earth, and what being existence, literally the 'present' moment, the now, the only time we have.

We are all sojourners on this lonely outpost in the vast cosmos, a pinpoint in the deep freeze of space, hurtling among the stars, all the while surrounded by the possibility of instant annihilation.

We are suspended between past and future, locked into the only moment we ever experience, the now of existence. The now terrifies us, being so close to instant annihilation. We flee from it. We remember the past and imagine the future, all the while avoiding the now with work and play and sleep.

We are alive to the past and future, yet dead to the now. We are the living dead. We are zombies.