I don’t know about some other folks, but most of my Others have already taken shape. Any new ones the apocalypse provides will just be variants.

Wow, social solidarity among people with some reasonable ties to place and each other holds up well under relatively brief conditions of disaster with help a notional 3 days away

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social solidarity holds up well in all conditions

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Stupid reactionaries who anticipate danger/collapse need to be slapped as rubes

Weaken the ties of community among the groups in your model, or lengthen the period of disaster longer than 3 days, let alone to “indefinite”.

There will still be social solidarity, people are like that, but it won’t be total. People are like that too. How the lines will break down may not be obvious in advance.

Bosnia was not a “disaster” other than in terms of politics, and since the nature of that disaster was essentially a breakdown in society itself…? Yeah; lousy example.

Additionally, Sarajevo during the period described was nothing like, say, Nashville, TN after the tornadoes rolled through. Incoherent culture, total breakdown of order, and, lastly, dealing with Serbs and Muslims. It’d be about like bemoaning the Hatfields and McCoys being an example of “no cooperation after disaster”, only exponentially worse.

The nature of the disaster itself was human-caused–And, what is bizarre is that I would wager that if an asteroid had struck the Adriatic, the Bosnian Muslims and Serbs might well have made common cause in the face of it. Left to their own devices, however? Internecine and incestuous warfare was the order of the day, working out the issues those groups had going back to the Turks.

Unity is the false god of totalitarians and of the insecure. First do things right, then the unity will happen. Put unity first, and you’ll never do things right.

And if I had to guess I’d say she probably isn’t especially young or hot.

Just saying.

Tell it to this guy:

https://personalliberty.com/one-year-in-hell/

Cities are full of the sorts of people who do not respond well to disasters. A few hours without electricity and it’s total anarchy.

If civilization collapses I’ll outlive the soyboys, but the preppers will outlive me.

The problem is that rural people are unclean, whereas journalists are God’s gift to the world. When journalists finally bring the dictatorship of the proletariat, there will be no more farming. Instead, pure kosher beef will be created from the infallible typewriters of the Party. Until then, any traitor who contradicts the message of the party must be denounced to the nearest commissar as a reactionary, and probably a Kulak.