[lit-ideas] Re: on the home front
- From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:06:11 -0700 (PDT)
Okay, what the heck. Let's imagine living in a Road Warrior world. You'd get
up in the morning, shuffle out to the kitchen, put on your coffee .... right?
Except in a RW world you wouldn't be able to plug in the pot because there's no
electricity, there's no coffee because the supermarket you can't get to is
empty, there might be no running water out of the faucet, especially if you
have a submersible pump that runs on electricity, no food except what you could
grow or barter for, no television, no telephone, no internet. Kind of the way
it was for most of history. On top of which, it's probably not extremely
safe. Does that change the calculus at all?
--- On Wed, 8/13/08, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: on the home front
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 5:35 PM
> Also, I'm not sure about the richest, etc. I forget what Jared Diamond
> calls it, but it's the condition where in a collapse of civilization,
such
> as with the Maya, the royalty are sheltered until the end. All that means
> is they're the last to starve to death. What's the point of
survival at all
> costs anyway? Would you want to live in a Road Warrior type world?
Well, I know how to ride a motorcycle really well and I have some old
hockey equipment I could probably use. I've got a sledgehammer that I
could weld to a chain of some sort for a nice swinging weapon. I've
got an old fishing spear that might take a fellow's eye out at 20
paces.
seriously though, it's not that I would WANT to live in a road warrior
type world, I just want to LIVE.
p
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