“life will go on almost like normal”
Try to watch the TV Series “Jericho.” It is a post-apocalyptic action-drama TV series which centers on the residents of the fictional city of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of a limited nuclear attack on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States. It ran on CBS from September 20, 2006, to March 25, 2008.
It was very well done. Life afterwards was anything “like normal.” IMO, it wouldn’t require anything like 23 simultaneous nuclear blasts on US cities to cause complete societal breakdown. Given the social structure breakdown and uncertain supply chains, towns quickly began distrusting neighboring towns.
Try living and working in Europe circa 1994 during the unpleasantness in Serbia-Bosnia-Croatia.
You could be in a café in a pleasant small town enjoying lunch while two hours away, people were dodging snipers in bombed out subdivisions while getting out to the market to buy supplies in a city surrounded by hostile military forces and riven by ethnic gangs. This wasn't a television series.
It made quite an impression on me.
Back in 1998, this fellow by the name of John Titor claimed to be a time time traveler from the future. He claimed that he came from the 2030's in a time machine which was a period-automobile with this 500 pound time-displacement device in the back seat. He posted his tohoughts about stuff, and then after about two years flew the coop and hasn't been heard from since.Now, he claimed that there was a civil war in the United States. The war was basically between the urban areas and the countryside. He said that the President was trying to hold eveything together, but that the war was a very nasty one and involved serious disagreements on culture and society. After a period of time, the urban folk provoked the Russians into war, and they blasted the heck out of our cities. What followed was even wrose than civil war.
Now, his predicitons; the dates were all wrong. They came and went.
But aside from that, he has predicted so many things that actually came to pass that nonoe of us had any clue about back in 1998. Like You-tube. Etc. I think that it would be very interesting if all of you guys took a look at what he had to say, in light of the debate that all of us are currently involved in.
Just suggesting.
John Titor - Intro and summary