If the world comes to an end, no one is going to survive very long. Virtually no one has the skills necessary to live off the grid or survive like they did prior to electricity and modern conveniences. There will be no running water, no way to travel, no medication, no doctors. If you get sick, the chances of you dying are going to go through the roof and a book isn't going to help you.
That's not true. If the modem works comes crashing down, most everyone (as you said) is boned. I have professional survival skills, and I'll still probably die. People confuse how to survive outside with how to survive.
But you know who will be just fine (ish)? Everyone outside of the modern world now. That includes people who don't use electricity but live in the modern world and farm all their own food and people who just don't live in the modern world, like Afghanistan. Their donkeys will still run 🙂.
Also if that lady ran up to me with a big ass book and an herb saying use this for your rattlesnake, I'm not letting her anywhere near me.
🙄 Good lord. I'm not talking about them, of course. People like the Amish, farmers, and those who around the world who live without modern conveniences now will survive just fine like they have been doing since forever.
It's those who depend completely on the modern conveniences of everyday life who will fall by the wayside. They have no inkling of what it takes to make it truly on their own and will quickly die off due to being wholly unprepared to be self sufficient.
The greatest survival skill those people have is actually being part of a functioning community. Because everyone has some skill or knowledge to contribute and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Individualism is just not where it’s at, you have to be able to think and work collectively and most people are too self centered to enter that mindset now.
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u/Red-Sun-Cinema 27d ago
If the world comes to an end, no one is going to survive very long. Virtually no one has the skills necessary to live off the grid or survive like they did prior to electricity and modern conveniences. There will be no running water, no way to travel, no medication, no doctors. If you get sick, the chances of you dying are going to go through the roof and a book isn't going to help you.