Please watch this youtube version of “The Last Valley,” 1971, Michael Caine and Omar Shariff. At least watch the first two 12-minute segments. Give everybody AKs and ARs, add Islam to the mix, and this is the future that I see. You can skip the 3 minutes of pre-credits.
The Last Valley
The best post-SHTF movie, ever. Even if it’s set in 1630.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6g9g1CRD1s
I will do that tonight for sure.
I have been an ardent sci- fi/Fantasy/Dystopia reader since I was a kid. The great thing about fiction like that comes when the writer (which of course you know) bases his fiction on likely scenarios and extrapolates logical outcomes...even hen sharks with frikkin lazerbeams are involved.
I use the Fallout games a lot as an example because when I look at the world today I see people that, in a SHTF, will not worry about food because they can call for pizza. They simply are so mentally removed from the basics of economy and the way society works (or does not) that they will literally be trying to use their neighbor’s cell phone to call from since theirs isn’t working...
Fallout is the result of that. Those people are slaves when the alpha gangs come to town. If they don’t starve first. They cannot build a fire. they don’t know how to hunt or fish and have not the tools to do so, much less fashion any. And without Google, they have no books to learn how from.
At best you have scared and starving sheep banding together. Then a wolf emerges among them and the sheep go meekly along.
I give it a month after the store shelves empty before the American population is in 5-6 figures. All the lib types will be dead or slaves, sexual and otherwise to the gangs.
Most survivalists wont because their book learning, far better than none, will fall to the gangs onslaught.
Ex military with actual combat experience and genuine mountain men types will be the survivors. Because they -—understand-— survival. And combat. Which are going to be the two things most ‘front and center’ in the brave new world.
I don’t see a coherent military staying together. I think there will be bunker dwellers plotting to rebuild but no one to do it.
All these things share two things. Basic dystopian themes. Basic human nature. And thats why I see it as our future.
bttt