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Mr. Sunshine
Nothing biblical. All it would take is an event that stopped the trucks from rolling or the electricity to stop flowing. We like to think of ourselves as being civilized and enlightened, as having out grew the savage tendencies of the past. Some people do tend to come together in times of crisis, and you see the best of human nature. Unfortunately, that seems to be the exception, and not the rule.Old Sew'n'Sew said:Is this STHF you are talkin' about by any chance Biblical in nature because that what I think I'm hearin'?
There is a very thin veneer of civility in our society. To quote James Rawles in his book How to Survive TEOTWAKI, "You take the average Urbanite or Suburbanite and get him excessively cold, wet, tired, hungry, and/or thirsty and take away his television, beer, drugs, and other pacifiers, and you will soon see the savage within. It is like peeling the skin off an onion - remove a couple of layers and it gets real smelly".
You see the veneer wear through on occasion, a verdict that a portion of society doesn't like, law enforcement becomes non-existent (think of the days following Katrina), or for some just their sports team winning a championship is an excuse.
I want to believe that people will come together in these times we are discussing, but for people to come together they need hope. We have grown so dependent on technology for our survival that, should that technology break down, there would be no hope for the vast majority. An EMP attack with it's subsequent loss of the grid for years, would only see a relatively small number of deaths in the first days. In the long term, it would mean the death of perhaps 90 to 95% of the US population.
As to what would our country look like after such an event. It's hard for me to see it rebuilt as it was originally founded, a constitutional republic. We were the only such country to ever have had such a government, and we have long since lost it. We used to say "these united states", now we say "the united states". The first referred a country made up of a collection of sovereign states, the latter to a sovereign country made up of states. I doubt that we will ever regain what we have lost.
Edited to correct FFS