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comment by kleinbl00

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."





Metapixelatron  ·  2950 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"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?

kleinbl00  ·  2950 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You didn't say "If you think you knew." You said "If you KNEW human civilization was going to end."

I love how you think any of us have agency in this hypothetical process of yours.