movies about apocalypses: it’s every man for himself!! you can’t trust anyone, it’s a wasteland of solo travelers and sad families, we’re alone out here
humans irl: *pack bond with strangers*
*pack bond with large carnivores*
*pack bond with robots in space thousands of miles away*
Apocalypse preppers who fantasise about all our artificial rules and governments falling away in times of chaos seem to forget that we invented those rules and governments. Over and over. When you put humans near each other, they group up and make a society; that’s why those governments exist. Do they think we magically stop doing that in dangerous situations? Because… we don’t.
No they’re just racist and extremely paranoid so they defer to individualist ‘us vs them’ fantasies because they cannot imagine turning to their neighbors, whom they have forsaken, for help in times of crisis. Having cut themselves off from society to prop up their white identity- bc preppers are majority white, majority male- they do not expect to be supported, and assume the only option is to fend for themselves.
