"Look, you get people scared, then you knock out every prop that we've taken for granted. After these last sixty days I bet there's a dozen prophets running around this country saying, 'Follow me,' and even if but one-tenth of one percent of the survivors do so, that will still be hundreds of thousands of barbarians on the march and the rest of us running, scared shitless of them. "Damn our enemies who did this to us, they knew us well," John sighed. "They knew human nature too well, and just how fragile civilization is, and how tough it is to defend it. Something we forgot."
