There’s a reason raiders and bandits are a staple of post apocalyptic/SHTF fiction. Also why Cannibalism and other despicable acts are as well. People go to desperate measures to survive and people break inside eventually.
You’ll learn the true measure of people and what lengths they’ll go to when deprived of comforts and are reduced to basics
The truth is most of these stories are unrealistic and very, very short term, aka the first 6 months.
By then everybody who didn't have a plan or take action is dead, and the people who did will organize, militarize, and quickly form at a minimum a feudal system.
What is MUCH more likely is the new militerized city states will start warring with each other, with a conqueror emerging who forges the first kingdom.
There’s a reason raiders and bandits are a staple of post apocalyptic/SHTF fiction. Also why Cannibalism and other despicable acts are as well. People go to desperate measures to survive and people break inside eventually.
You’ll learn the true measure of people and what lengths they’ll go to when deprived of comforts and are reduced to basics
Lucifer's Hammer is a great example of what would happen in a post-apocalyptic world.
The truth is most of these stories are unrealistic and very, very short term, aka the first 6 months.
By then everybody who didn't have a plan or take action is dead, and the people who did will organize, militarize, and quickly form at a minimum a feudal system.
What is MUCH more likely is the new militerized city states will start warring with each other, with a conqueror emerging who forges the first kingdom.