Originally Posted by
gerv
I think sociologists would have a field day with the way we use mythology. A couple of good movie scripts and we seem to have no imagination for any other possibility. Perhaps the invasion of the Visigoths down the Roman peninsula left an indelible social memory that we can erase? Wouldn't it be ironic if everyone in the Post Apocalypse just were bored to death playing checkers?
If it were only our mythology. The Sociologists must have scratched their head back in 94 when the Hutu and Tutsi problems were interrupting checker playing in Rwanda. I had to send a friend $200.00 so he could get out of the country. But alas it wasn't on a bicycle, fleeing some Apocalypse is often best done by foot or truck.
A little real life background:
http://suite101.com/article/hutu-tutsi-genocide-a28529
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13431486
And it seems as if the military extremists lasted a lot longer than three days.
Maybe our other mythology includes the movie the killing fields? Some people believe the nature of mankind is peaceful and good. When I was in college world history, or anthropology rather it be believed fictional or not, didn't seem to indicate that the strong almost always seems to attack the week. It is from our past actions as a race that our future actions are predicted, so disaster movies are made based on our history. IMHO
