Why does it take a doomsday threat to make you do what you have always wanted to do?
Firstly that video is batshit crazy. Because I like living a stable and happy life, and those things are far more valuable than whatever it is I'd do if the world is ending in a few days. In reality I would begin hoarding food, buy solar and other equipment, and begin downloading large stores of knowledge on how to accomplish various tasks on the internet. Work on building/joinin a community network with my local, rural, farming town of people with various skills, and figure out communication channels so the town itself can form a new, hardier, community right after society ends.Why does it take a doomsday threat to make you do what you have always wanted to do?
Your answer is the exact oposite to that of kleinbl00. Instead of hunkering down, you chose to find solutions to the problems that might develop. I hope most people will share your mindset, as it will be needed in the future... MIGHT be needed, that is... ominous music plays in the background
As time goes on, people who don't have resources and don't oknow how to produce them would become feral. Most people in big cities don't even know how to plant basic food or which fruits can be eaten. A person with these skills could go to the desperate people and ask them to worrk together. You may think that staying in, by yourself, with guns would be a successful strategy, but it would not. The community around you must be stable, too. Sometimes, that means teaching people basic skills, so they focus on productive actions, instead of destructive actions. That's how I see it, anyway.
Feral, no. Humans without resources will do what they need to in order to support our families. Nothing feral about that. Doing what you have to in order to keep stability and feed your kids is and should be encouraged. The cities are full of competent, intelligent people who can and will be able to support themselves, but the thing is that there just isn't enough ability to produce or bring in food without the support of the rest of the farming areas delivering food on massive trips with huge trucks. It's not the people that are bad, we are the ones who formed those cities and built ourselves from the ground up, it's the nature of the changing environment.
1) I would laugh 2) I would engage in activities that employ my skill set 3) I would rebuild, in peace, knowing I'm free of the nonsensical thinkers who think they can out-think every hurdle thrown at them, real or not. This video is crazy. I find debating hypothetical questions to be quite tiresome. With that said, questions like these will become a reality in our lifetime... so long as mankind continues to script life as a set of their values. But, I'm crazy too so.... ;)
Well, at least nobody said that they would go on a killing spree. So, I guess we are good.
Contrary to the common trope, I suspect that everyone's activities would be largely reactive to the chaotic downfall of order. If you wanted to so much as take a bus to a national park, your desires would be dependent on not just the altruism of the bus driver and park ranger sublimating their desires to yours but also the altruism of the larger infrastructure of everyone that supports them. I suspect I'd be limited to "hunker down in my house in the dark eating whatever is in the pantry and hope nobody notices me."
"hunker down in my house in the dark eating whatever is in the pantry and hope nobody notices me." That's exactly the kind of behavior that would accelerate the downfall of everything, don't you think so?