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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
At any given time, most societies are too stable and secure to spawn genocide and strife on a Rwandan level. Of course, 150 years ago Rwanda was a peaceful mountain kingdom while the US was fighting a vicious civil war. Times do change!
It is human nature to bully, fight and steal from the weak. And nobody can deny that there is also in our nature a wish for peace, justice and compassion. Usually after a natural disaster, people rise to the occasion and help their neighbors. But once in a while there is a Katrina, where some people fall apart and make matters worse.