• zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Look at Gaza where a real apocalypse is happening right now. The people aren’t turning into zombies and preppers and killing each other in a darwinian struggle. They aren’t selfishly hoarding food and water and medical supplies and holing up isolated in bunkers. They are on the street, helping provide medical attention and transport, making huge batches of broth and soup to hand out to the population, praying in their mosques and churches, etc.

      • Tiocfaidhcaisarla [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        11 months ago

        I love that there’s a real world analog to this that happened around the same time the book was published, where some teenage boys were lost at sea, stranded on an island for over a year, and not only all survived but helped fix one of the boys’ broken legs and nursed him back to health.

        I would like to add: death to the west and all it’s preconceived notions of “human nature”