Phyllis Meredith answers “does it bother anyone that in the 20 years...”

Catherine Goldwyn asked this question about Station Eleven:

does it bother anyone that in the 20 years since these people got slammed and the human race got almost wiped away , no one thought about going to a library and figuring out how to rebuild? I mean, all the information is there - in writing, in books! All of it - for all the ages! For me, this was nagging me the whole time

Phyllis Meredith I find this very difficult to believe as well. Musicians and actors were able to pick up the pieces of their lives/livelihoods and successfully go on,…moreI find this very difficult to believe as well. Musicians and actors were able to pick up the pieces of their lives/livelihoods and successfully go on, but no one else?!? There was a time before electricity, before computers and cell phones, I know it would be hard to get used to, but even today, plenty of people are out there living off the grid. For most of us, it would be really disorientating to not have the technology we are used to and rely on. When "the system" goes down for even a few days it makes working as a dr (with all records and files online) very difficult, we should take this as a lesson and have more paper records. But it was possible to do most of the basic things we do today without technology. But the key here is that the actors and musicians were working together. It takes teamwork to accomplish most things. A single solar engineer can't restore power to everyone, but once the shock and sadness of the trauma and loss ebbed even a bit, it was time to start working together. Those are my thoughts (less)

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