“Rugged individualists” will be some of the first to fall, because they are (largely) alone, with few to no friends to watch their backs. Tight communities wil

“Rugged individualists” will be some of the first to fall, because they are (largely) alone, with few to no friends to watch their backs. Tight communities will be the hardest to take down, as everyone watches everyone else’s back, and will gladly come to the rescue. A tightly-integrated community with a rammed-earth rampart and a tree-trunk pallisade will be more of a deterrent than some Rambo with his family in a bunker, because the former has 600 pairs of eyes (and ideally, about as many weapons) and the latter has a dozen pairs of eyes at the most. The risks are far greater than the rewards for the former, and flipped for the latter.