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What will you do when bullets run out??
Not too hard really, and you don't need a weapon at all.
Originally posted by BlueMule
Originally posted by mclinking
Originally posted by BlueMule
Originally posted by smyleegrl
Could we survive?
Yeah. Humanity could survive. Culture would go through a period of communitas in which social structures and institutions are torn down. But during periods of communitas and liminality, paranormal phenomenon spike. During such periods the paranormal can no longer be marginalized by social mechanisms and structures and bureaucracy. Countless people would be awakened. We would evolve. Finally.
Then we would learn that there is nothing technology can do for us that our collective psychic ability can't do better.
edit on 22-3-2013 by BlueMule because: (no reason given)
Humanity could survive, but in rival communities. Bad guys with guns & ammo will hunt good guys and you'lll see fiction becoming reality. Crime would escalate, go sky high, a real survival of the fittest. It will be a reversion to barbarism. This has happened so many times in human history. Our world would go centuries back, almost overnight.
So? I mean you seem to be saying all that as if it contradicts what I said. It doesn't. What you describe is just the beginning stage of major communitas.
edit on 22-3-2013 by BlueMule because: (no reason given)
here would easily be hundreds of thousands of deaths within the first year from people killing each other over the last can of raviolis in a looted grocery store. Without a doubt, the worst place to be if all hell broke loose is the cities.
I would be curious to take this one step further: how many folks here can string a bow? Sharpen a knife (without a fancy knife sharpener)? Cook without a skillet? How many would die from simple diseases gained from wild game that is not prepared properly?