I read it a couple of weeks ago. Very good book. What’s interesting to note is that if we were hit by a solar flare or EMP, would we be much different than the Haitians? Not according to One Second After, and I tend to agree. I’ve tried to start discussions about that on a couple of threads, but no one could get past the mind set that SOMEONE would come to help. It’s funny, but people can’t seem to comprehend a situation where there is, absolutely, no help coming.
Yes, because we are different, our culture and tradition is pulling together and problem solving, we know how to organize, we know how to manage resources and people, we are armed and sane, and again, our nature is to get to people to help them, not to instantly revert back to a savagery that we never really left.
We are also smart, and we mostly cooperate when needed, it will be easier for us to deal with sanitation and health issues because we listen when someone tells us how to stop, or prevent epidemic outbreaks and how to deal with a new situation.
Twenty five million of our adults are military veterans, when a mob of 500 hundred of our middle class gathers, it is much easier for a little leadership and expertise, to put them to use in a constructive manner, we fix things, we do not panic and go mad.