Strategies for post-apocalyptic life. (non-political thread)

[Sergeant Thorne]

You're living in a fantasy, Roid.

[woodchip]

As a zombie I will get everything I need from your face. Life will be oh so much more simpler.

[Will Robinson]

Roid, you really are creating a fantasy but it is your choice.

Alpha refers to the ones who seek to dominate a situation and their environment. They will be there, at least in the real post apocalyptical world.

So in your fantasy, if you don't pretend they won't exist, you will have people seeking out weapons. Alphas will to empower their rise to power and smart Betas will to provide some deterence to the danger of the Alphas.

Take away the guns and they appear with bows and arrows, swords and spears, etc. you need to decide what level of weaponry your fantasy world will have in it or specify that the new world starts with a lobotomy for everyone.

What is boring is you haven't thought this out and when the discussion pokes holes in your secret fantasy you improvise poorly and become frustrated.

You seem to want to discuss a world where people all get along and are faced with the challenge of rebuilding society, fine, do that. But lay out the rules BEFORE you ask for contribution. Don't withhold the details and then scold us because we didnt somehow know to abandon reality. You screwed up by not informing us that your scenario demands we ignore a primary component of human nature.

Are you going to be one of the smart ones planning the rebuilding? I think I'll be one of the ones who sneaks a Glock into the camp....just in case the planners forgot something important.

[Tunnelcat]

I figured we might be a bit more enlightened thesedays. a bit more cultured. we may aim for higher things. Maybe we've all learned a thing or 2 about good strategies. ppl write very popular books about surviving zombie apocalypses, we can do this.
And hey, if it helps you to think about it this way, what if we go with your good ol' American "Guns-r-the-best" mantra: Maybe in post-apocalyptic life, guns would be so ubiquitous that everyone ends up figuring that it's in everyone's best interest to just get along and rebuild society peacefully instead of wasting time trying to dominate eachother like gibbering chimps. Does that help? I'd really like to diffuse this whole "omg violence" mentality you just can't seem to think outside of. COZ IT'S SUPER BORING. It makes for a super boring thread.

roid, you should have figured out human behavior by now. We'll still follow survival of the fittest mode when things go bad. But I do think that our intelligent brain will help us overcome adversity after things settle down. We are social animals and we will band together in groups to try and survive any adversity. And that's how humans will survive, by banding together. Singly, we are weak, in groups, we can survive. It's just that there will be a time of adjustment to our new normal. It's the adjustment to the new normal that might be a little messy.

You might want to read this book. It's pretty good. It gives us an idea of what might happen to humans in a post-apocalyptic world were neo-fuedalism takes over after everything that runs on electricity no longer works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_the_Fire