Ah the lovely end of the world scenario. Society breaking down. Disaster everywhere. The human sheep running amok.
Why is this on my mind? Because I am at work (you'll hear more about this cubicle farm in the future, I'm sure) and that's what the guy sitting next to me is discussing. We've been through a bit of downsizing and lost several members from our team the past six months. Thus he now has to discuss this stuff with me as he lost his cohorts on the subject. The 'team lunches' I conveniently had meetings during would often turn into what each of them thought they would need to survive the collapse of this society.
One guy believes he can bunker down with his wife and son and all their stockpiles of food stuffs in a concrete tomb under ground. Okay, I call it a tomb... don't remember what his name for it was... kinda blocked that one out. Anyway, he thought that with six months of supplies he could wait out the worst of it hidden from the rest of the world. At the end of six months he would emerge and be a part of rebuilding.
The one speaking today has another attitude. He is stockpiling guns and ammo. I point out that eventually ammo runs out but he thinks he's smarter than the average human sheep and will only use what is absolutely necessary for his goals. The reason he stockpiles guns instead of supplies is he believes he can take supplies from the sheeple (human sheep). To end the conversation I refrained from pointing out that he can't even manage to climb a single flight of stairs without having to stop for five minutes and catch his breath. Not sure how he's going to catch sheeple to take their supplies with or without a gun.
This does bring up an interesting subject. We are in 2011. The supposed end of the world is less than two years away according to the talking heads out there. So what does that mean?
A firey death coming from outer space? Natural disaster wiping out the human population? If so, then why is everyone so worried about it? It's not like they're going to be around to suffer because of it.
So not the literal physical end to the planet. The end of society then? I can believe this one a bit more but again how can you really prepare? Unless you're orchestrating said end how do you know what it's going to be? What will the trigger be? What will the result be? Societies rise and fall all the time. Read some history if you don't believe me. And people have survived. How? Not really by stockpiling and bunkering down.
Survival is an instinct. A using of the brain we all have even if we look at some people and don't believe it. The survivors have been the ones willing to be flexible. Rather than spouting rhetoric or orders or such, they've been watchers. But they don't just watch. They put what they observe and learn into action. Use the chaos and new order to build a place for themselves, whatever incarnation that takes.
I suppose that leads to me. I am a watcher. I observe the world, view the patterns and put things together in my own mind. Hopefully I use that knowledge and wisdom when the time comes. Sometimes I doubt myself on that one but I'm working on it. Always working on it. And that, my friends, is where I listen to my coworkers and their plans for surviving the end of the world... and mentally find many possible paths for my own survival in their perceived new worlds. Or my path in this world should it continue as is.
How about you? What are your thoughts on the subject.
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