...actually, saying 10% survive is on the high side. Back 200 years ago (where we end up) we had horses and horse-drawn plows...along with the survival skills needed for that time. Now we’ll have Nintendo’s that don’t work, and Facebook being down...not a chance.
In actuality, people will simply kill each other without asking questions, in order to get to whatever supplies exist. It will be kind of a grand-scale elimination match.
The best thing that can happen is a limited attack in some part of the country...that snaps the rest of the country to attention, so that Palin uses whatever nukes Obama leaves her with to take out the easy targets of North Korea and Iran. Let’s hope for this outcome, because we don’t want to be around for the other outcome.
Facebook being down would be a great thing. There's always a silver lining!
Some, like the Amish still have those tools and skills, I had them as a boy back in the fifties and I still know how to do a lot of that stuff if I could get my hands on what is needed and keep someone from killing me for my last sandwich.
I don’t actually know how realistic the scenario is but I have had a gnawing fear in the back of my mind for years because of just what you mentioned. I fear that one way or another this economic crash is going to wind up FAR WORSE than the thirties because when the SHTF many of those who are so well off today will be the most helpless if we do have to go back to the old ways. Advanced degrees don’t make one unable to cope but those who have relied solely on their advanced educations and the high paying jobs that education garnered for them may have little or no real world survival experience. Maybe if I survive I will be the old guy giving instructions on how to grow crops with a team of mules and a hoe.
This old song may yet come back in style,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIWb8HJ5gLo