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With respect, the Symphony has time to perform Shakespeare...
And the Symphony members have time to collect trinkets, books, and old magazines. Plus a guy started an actual library. Surely on a scavenging trip someone could bring an engineering book or, heck, a farmer's almanac and animal husbandry book to add to the library's knowledge. Better yet, a survivalist's guide showing what wild plants are edible and how to best preserve them.
Certainly, there is a requirement for free time in which to accomplish non-survival tasks. Where would you even start? In some small town by a river, there may be a small dam where you could produce electricity, but much more than that is nearly impossible without people and scale.
Many did indeed evolve to plant vegetables, division of power. It takes time
99/100 people died within a matter of weeks. There would be an abundance of food to hold people over until they could get at least rudimentary things back up... I found the premise very very hard to buy. The book acted like the virus somehow made all knowledge disappear too.
You are assuming that it would be you against (whatever is left of) the world. It might get me killed but I would take a different approach. I think it is obvious that people need each other and that everyone has different skills - if you are part of a group or community, some would be the providers and some would be the "rebuilders" - in other words to rebuild, humans would need to organize themselves in communities - as far as I understood, towns still exist - houses and buildings weren't wiped out in a nuclear war - most things still stand. The issue in my opinion would be finding or sourcing the resources and infrastructure to rebuild such as tools, gas, etc. But again, and this may be a sweeping generalization but most people have tools of some sort and if there is only 1% of the population left but 99% of their homes are still there it should be possible to find basic equipment to start from scrath. The pioneers did - certainly a civilazation that previously had everything including the knowledge of how to rebuild is at an advantage compared to them. Charles Ingalls dug a well and build a house for his family, grew crops, and fed a family with a shovel and a hammer. Period lol - I kinda feel like everyone at the airport could have made a greater effort.
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With respect, the Symphony has time to perform Shakespeare...
And the Symphony members have time to collect trinkets, books, and old magazines. Plus a guy started an actual library. Surely on a scavenging trip someone could bring an engineering book or, heck, a farmer's almanac and animal husbandry book to add to the library's knowledge. Better yet, a survivalist's guide showing what wild plants are edible and how to best preserve them.
Certainly, there is a requirement for free time in which to accomplish non-survival tasks. Where would you even start? In some small town by a river, there may be a small dam where you could produce electricity, but much more than that is nearly impossible without people and scale.
Many did indeed evolve to plant vegetables, division of power. It takes time
99/100 people died within a matter of weeks. There would be an abundance of food to hold people over until they could get at least rudimentary things back up... I found the premise very very hard to buy. The book acted like the virus somehow made all knowledge disappear too.
You are assuming that it would be you against (whatever is left of) the world. It might get me killed but I would take a different approach. I think it is obvious that people need each other and that everyone has different skills - if you are part of a group or community, some would be the providers and some would be the "rebuilders" - in other words to rebuild, humans would need to organize themselves in communities - as far as I understood, towns still exist - houses and buildings weren't wiped out in a nuclear war - most things still stand. The issue in my opinion would be finding or sourcing the resources and infrastructure to rebuild such as tools, gas, etc. But again, and this may be a sweeping generalization but most people have tools of some sort and if there is only 1% of the population left but 99% of their homes are still there it should be possible to find basic equipment to start from scrath. The pioneers did - certainly a civilazation that previously had everything including the knowledge of how to rebuild is at an advantage compared to them. Charles Ingalls dug a well and build a house for his family, grew crops, and fed a family with a shovel and a hammer. Period lol - I kinda feel like everyone at the airport could have made a greater effort.
today we can buy food or live of our parents; and have all the time to learn (which is good), however child labor was necessary at one point in history