This originally aired on The Final Straw radio show.

After having rattled off a five minute history of the world to explain why I am against swivilization, it’s clear that I’m going to have to dispel some myths. It seems that we’re all held captive by some really bad movies from the 80’s
Hollywood produced a pile of post-apocalyptic  movies where swivilization collapsed. In everyone of them, there is a band of maurauding pillagers and rapists who terrorize survivors and steal limited resources for their survival. The most popular of those films was the Max Max series, staring Mel Gibson back before he became a Jew hating, drunk, producing blood sport movies starring Jesus.

It seems everyone imagines that in the absence of swivilization we’d face a Mad Max world. So out of fear of that alternative everyone hangs on to swivilization as a as a kind of “lesser evil.”But I think we need to consider that these Mad Max movies are not written by sociologists. We need to question  if a Mad Max scenario would really happen if swivilization collapsed.
There are two necessary preconditions that have to exist for a mad max  scenerio  to happen. The first is, there would have to be bloodthirsty, irrational maniacs who have a popular following of other, roving around and terrorizing peace-loving people. The second is, there would have to be a scarcity of resources. Continue reading →