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Completely agree. It is actually very hard to collapse a modern Western society. It is too large, too complex, and have millions of people working to stabilise/
by mbrodersen 5y ago
Completely agree. It is actually very hard to collapse a modern Western society. It is too large, too complex, and have millions of people working to stabilise/fix problems.
- KozmoNau7 5y agoProbably, it'll be more like the fall of the Roman empire; a slow gradual process of increasing instability, culminating not in utter chaos, anarchy and apocalypse, but in finding a new (temporary) period of some stability. It's probably going to be a decrease in quality of life for many people, but certainly not a cavemen fighting with sticks situation, and the bunker survivors gloriously emerging to rule the wasteland as kings, as some preppers seem to believe.
- benjarrell 5y agoThis is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
- mbrodersen 5y agoYep agree. The bunkers also forget that there are more firearms in the US than people. So plenty of people will be targeting the bunkers.
- anemoiac 5y agoFor the collapse community, that complexity is viewed as a major vulnerability. A classic text in their lexicon is anthropologist Joseph Tainter’s “The Collapse of Complex Societies,” which discusses complexity’s role in collapse (the TL;DR is that diminishing marginal returns to social complexity are to be avoided if you’d like your society to prevail).
- mbrodersen 5y agoYep they are pretty much wrong. Complexity is not the same as Fragility.