Why only weird people survive the apocalypse?

[belamyi]

See, I don't believe at all that as soon as shit hits the fan we all will turn into murderous cannibals. History is filled with examples of apocalyptic events, ranging from foreign invaders to volcanic eruptions and everything in between. Civilization always endured.

... elsewhere, while civilizations fell.
Even when Globalization falls, there will always be new pockets of greater or lesser civilization.
You do not need a zombie apocalypse: just look at sale rushes, greater blackout, bank runs... everyday life whenever money and/or responsibility is/are involved...

 

[cabinfever]

See, I don't believe at all that as soon as shit hits the fan we all will turn into murderous cannibals. History is filled with examples of apocalyptic events, ranging from foreign invaders to volcanic eruptions and everything in between. Civilization always endured.

Pretty much every movie involving the apocalypse has the main premise that you need to avoid people because all of a sudden everyone is a murderous cannibal. I truly don't believe this. I truly believe we should seek out other survivors and work together. Synergy!

I really think this is where movies got it wrong. When shit hits the fan, the survivors will come together like no time before to do a common goal.

In The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead series - you have both examples - the people you describe and the "other people" who are fuckwads - kinda like it is in the day to day world without the apocalypse or zombies.

 

[cabinfever]

^ We are all zombies already anyway, so...

There is some truth to that.

 

[Peloso]

See, I don't believe at all that as soon as shit hits the fan we all will turn into murderous cannibals. History is filled with examples of apocalyptic events, ranging from foreign invaders to volcanic eruptions and everything in between. Civilization always endured.

Pretty much every movie involving the apocalypse has the main premise that you need to avoid people because all of a sudden everyone is a murderous cannibal. I truly don't believe this. I truly believe we should seek out other survivors and work together. Synergy!

Are you talking about real life or movies?

Because if you're talking about movies, a story where an apocalyptic event occurs and everybody works together with no conflict would be mighty fucking boring.

If you're talking about real life then in terms of loss of life and socio-economic effect, we just went through one with Covid and you saw how that went.

 

[belamyi]

Are you talking about real life or movies?

Because if you're talking about movies, a story where an apocalyptic event occurs and everybody works together with no conflict would be mighty fucking boring.

You mean no conflict apart from the apocalypse itself.

 

[Peloso]

You mean no conflict apart from the apocalypse itself.

So there are no conjunctions in whatever language it is you claim to speak?

 

[Dominus]

Are you talking about real life or movies?

Because if you're talking about movies, a story where an apocalyptic event occurs and everybody works together with no conflict would be mighty fucking boring.

If you're talking about real life then in terms of loss of life and socio-economic effect, we just went through one with Covid and you saw how that went.

I don't agree. There are a lot more challenges in such a situation than dealing with everybody around you turning into a serial killer.

 

[belamyi]

So there are no conjunctions in whatever language it is you claim to speak?

Depends on the occasion just like with colons, quotation marks, or whatever else

 

[NotHardUp1]

If I might be serious for only a moment, I posit two theories.

First, the writer is trying to establish a new world, even if it clawed out of the corpse of the old world. An Apocalypse upends the present order, and it removes many of the restraints that have evolved over many thousands of years in human societies. The result is mankind unchained, most unkind.

The second implicit message is that nature selects those for the environment. In a post-Apocalyptic world, nature will select new successful individuals for the traits they possess, and they will be alien to our values and sensibilities because they represent the new paradigm.