I was up late and am just now having coffee.
What you say is true about varying degrees of incivility.
In the end in Road Warrior times. firearms and ammo are the premium. With that power you can obtain your survival needs or force those with those items to cooperate.
I don’t see survival like in the woods with a storehouse and guns but more of a local group effort against outsiders.
a sanctuary...where groups survive rurally against maruaders
sort of like the most devastated parts of the South after Sherman’s march which is about our closest approximation to such things...locals banded together after the main body of Union forces moved on and protected themselves from bandits and deserters and freed slaves with ill intent...most slaves unless they joined the Bluebacks stayed on the farm uncertain in the chaos where it was at least safe and warm and some food they had helped hide.
Other bad case examples in the US history are Indian Wars...obviously...group up.
And urban riots...the most recent.
The lesson from that is be armed well, don’t live near high concentrations of Goblins and be prepared to move.
None of this takes into account conflict with govt forces which is today a ballgame to which at least here on this soil there is no modern parallel.
It would be devastating...possibly dwarf anything that has come before in terms of loss of life and brutality.
It would only be worse if the Chinese now with their billions and billions reverted to Mao-Pol Pot cleansing efforts or civil war.
I fear...in fact I know...one day. We humans will once again prove ourselves capable of unspeakable atrocities and it won’t just be dirt people with machetes or peasants. It will be larger and more dead....and it will be ideological.