Jean 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

Jean This is a 9 year old question, but I don't care. I'm reading all the answers. I assume somebody will read mine. At first I had the same question and I…moreThis is a 9 year old question, but I don't care. I'm reading all the answers. I assume somebody will read mine. At first I had the same question and I smugly chuckled at how smart I was. Then I thought about how many times the book says "Shakespeare lived in plague times." And then I started to think about how before Shakespeare, civilizations rose and fell. Things _were_ forgotten. Societies devolved. People lived in the ruins. I wonder if the author was thinking about this. How did it feel to live in the very start of the Dark Ages? All this has happened before. All this will happen again. ;-) (less)

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