I just read
“Alas, Brave New Babylon” new fiction by Matt Bracken
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3058882/posts
that you posted the other night. Fantastic read . Really makes you think how quickly things could degenerate into utter chaos. Thank you.
The story is really just a vehicle to get the narrator up on a tower to muse about the fall of man.
Alas, Brave New Babylon. (link to the Free Republic thread)