The apocalyptic, "end of modern society" thread

[jverne]

Modern society is a house of cards, we need to make it a deck of cards.

That is take away our insane, elaborate structure we have at the mo and develop a solid renewable existence, it'll prob take a reduction in population but hey i always say this: If everyone stopped having children tomorrow, within 50 years the population would be less than half.

Whatever happens it's a case of us all mucking in and major changes to our lifestyle, we can either start letting the balloon down slowly or it will pop in a couple of decades.

a 1984 state but not do depressive? sounds better than the human race scraping by in a neo stone age.

With technology advancing this is what i suggest:

-A cap on population and reproduction, harsh but effective, i'm not having kids personally.
-Vastly improved energy efficiency, localization, recycling technology.
-With the improvement of technology virtual entertainment through efficient computers is where it's at, if you could simulate the experience of going on holiday to somewhere tropical why would you need to waste gallons of fuel actually going there? matrix, why fight it?
-Removal of consumerist lifestyles, future generations can be taught the ways of living in harmony with each other and the earth.
-Make every person watch fight club 10 times.
-Improved food efficiency and recycling, upcoming biotechnology will allow 'human fuel' to be produced, various micro organisms that can be used to convert base (recyclable) materials into nutritious foods, or at the very least we can improve food production and the job will be made easier as people die off.
-No more people scraping off 'food they didn't eat' into a bin, i swear to god if i see someone doing this without genuine reason (i.e rotten food) i'll punch their head off, waste really gets to me...it's basically pissing all over the effort gone into making your food.

I think the lack of intelligent people who can't use logic to see what they are doing warrants a 'control system' if you allow free choice of living it's like giving bacteria a fresh agar dish in a warm place.



Women are great n all but i'm greatly incompatible with all i have been with so far, i say i've never had a girlfriend i've had women who have been attracted to me and likewise but it never works out because my lifestyle and philosophies are at odd with forming a relationship, i'm a 'boring android' but that's me, i'm not gonna pretend i'm someone else for a woman, if a woman likes me for who i am then it'll be brilliant.

i agree with a lot of your points. but sadly it's just not gonna happen.

personally i've been thinking if i should have kids or not. i'd really hate if they were to become mindless consumer whores. anyways, i'd never have more than two.
but the problems lie in the developing countries which far outnumbers us.

 

[Dan]

I'm having as many kids as I can impregnate women, thus achieving immortality. And my gang of street wise kids (because I can't be arsed to raise them all) will beat up your lonely fragile kids with no brothers to protect them.

 

[elkaebee]

I personally look foward to the post-apocolyptic future: It mens it will be easier for people to make it on their own like in the good ol' days.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

The good old days of cholera.

 

[Eejit]

The good old days of cholera.

Well, Ireland has the highest rate of Cystic fibrosis carriers in the world, so I might be relatively safe from cholera

 

[Terminator]

People who wish for an apocalypse have a romantic view of it, thinking it's the best parts of mad max and waterworld combined, it would be far from that.

Instead of basing ideas on films like mad max watch the documentary called 'threads' and that will give a slightly more realistic idea of what it would be like (at least for a nuclear induced apocalypse), society collapse would have similar effects in some of the scenes however.

 

[elkaebee]

People who wish for an apocalypse have a romantic view of it, thinking it's the best parts of mad max and waterworld combined, it would be far from that.

Hey, thats' not whats gonna happen in the apocalypse I start. No, n o, no, no...

 

[Saturos]

Hey, thats' not whats gonna happen in the apocalypse I start. No, n o, no, no...

The apocalypse YOU start? lol. Here's your apocalypse:

*Gives elkaebee a coarse, potato sack shirt,
Shoes made of cowhide
Some Denim coveralls made from leftover denim from the pre-collapse era
A pitchfork, shovel, and a bow (maybe a compound bow at least)
A shanty of a house/hut with no indoor plumbing, electricity, or the internet(s)
and last but not least, a voracious appetite, because you'll be lucky to catch a day's worth of food, much less a week's worth.

Oh yeah, your underwear will likely be potatosack material too. No Haynes or Fruit-of-the Loom in the post-apocalypse era either I'm afraid.

*Me in the post apocalypse era
Basically the same as above, only no pants (maybe a grass skirt though)
warpaint
spear (I'll probably starve for the first two weeks, if I make it that far that is. I fail at hunting/fishing today.)
and my favorite dragonshirt till it rots away.

 

[elkaebee]

No, my apocalypse involves only the complete and utter destruction of the US, nothing else.

 

[Saturos]

No, my apocalypse involves only the complete and utter destruction of the US, nothing else.

No. Actually, the US is a beautiful country. What you really mean is the complete and utter destruction of it's current governing body, (a.k.a George W. Bush, Hillary, Obama, and every other vulture swine that's ruining our once great land), before it's too late. I have no confidence in any of our current candidates, Republican or Democrat. Our current system needs an overhaul.

 

[elkaebee]

^Actually, I do mean it's complete and utter destruction, not for any other reason than it being in the way between Mexico and Canada.

Just a flattened, several thousand kilometre blank space on which to build a completely flat highway between the aforementioned Mexico and Canada.