> All of the niceties of modern civilization - friendly and neighborly coexistence - will likely be replaced with the desperate animal need to eat and survive.

> All of the niceties of modern civilization - friendly and neighborly coexistence - will likely be replaced with the desperate animal need to eat and survive. And without a central governing authority, or aid or help of any kind, the new social order will be brutal and unforgiving. I understand that's a bit of a modern ideological fiction. Social cooperation has a big survival advantage, and in difficult or precarious situations people often land on a strategy of being very generous and helpful to secure social capital to get assistance when they need it. So our big society filled with lots of anonymous individuals obsessing over rights granted by a sophisticated state would probably give way to smaller societies controlled by interpersonal relationships with people obsessing over reputation.