David Homer 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

David Homer Hmmm I'm in two minds about this, given that 99% of the population are dead that means there's enough stuff in storage for 100 times more people. I pe…moreHmmm I'm in two minds about this, given that 99% of the population are dead that means there's enough stuff in storage for 100 times more people. I personally would have biked to an Amazon distribution center or Argos and found some solar panels, wind up torches and some antibiotics (they'd last a couple of years).

But then I guess the book is not really about the practicalities of survivalism. Also after spending a year in an airport wondering if you leave you'll contract a deadly virus and die maybe you wouldn't be out there trying to restore society, you'd be happy reading the trashy novels from the departure lounge and trying to grow vegetables.(less)

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Ruth The book is only about a very small segment of society as well. Who knows what's going on in other countries or other parts of the US. No one knows be ...more
Dec 23, 2021 02:53PM · flag

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