tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931227998239921482.post518823192043591659..comments2020-10-03T06:18:18.780-07:00Comments on Progressive Positive: Post-Apocalyptic Technology: Black PowerLanceMillerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967321155433918187noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931227998239921482.post-57537616932007403712008-05-01T21:31:00.000-07:002008-05-01T21:31:00.000-07:00The idea of a post-apocalypse world has fascinated...The idea of a post-apocalypse world has fascinated me ever since I saw Mad Max.<BR/><BR/>I find your scenarios interesting.<BR/><BR/>However, I find it hard to believe that the Walkers would be flunkies for someone else. Do they not realize the power they now hold in their hands? No Walkers, no supplies!Sister Faithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15384371658220349600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931227998239921482.post-45907961040034983242008-04-29T13:16:00.000-07:002008-04-29T13:16:00.000-07:00So what about the cannibals? You know, in every p...So what about the cannibals? You know, in every post-apocalyptic scenario there's always the survivalists/zombies/fascists that get a little over-exited about the post-apocalyptic conditions.<BR/><BR/>I would assume that in the conditions described in Lance's dystopia the cannibals would be WASP survivalists - since they start off with the arms, sense of entitlement, ability to objectify non-Christians as non-human, and lack of solid contact with the outside world to keep their ethics from being twisted by conditions.<BR/><BR/>How would a petro and information rich, cloud-computing, bike-driving, airship flying, four-wheeler droned "intentional community" deal with the threat of bayonette-armed, ammo-hoarding, hummer-driving cannibal-militias? Would the intentional-community protect it's pet vegan communities, or would the vegans agricultural products not be worth the armed conflict?<BR/><BR/>Does the intentional community send missionaries to convert the cannibals to the way of the cloud? Does the intentional community beat up the cannibals first so they are humble enough to listen to the gospel of the cloud? Or are the cannibals genocidaly culled and their children shipped off to be raised by vegans?B. F. Galbraithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07584029720031925872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931227998239921482.post-20068980282202354992008-04-29T07:46:00.000-07:002008-04-29T07:46:00.000-07:00Modern New York was built to embody specific class...Modern New York was built to embody specific class and race relationships. Robert Moses invented a car-centered culture with parkways and suburbs around a city of tall towers. Low bridges over the parkways act as gates keeping buses full of workers and blacks out of the islands of affluent whiteness.<BR/><BR/>Moses embodied the spirit of the engineering genius designing a society from the outside. In spite of his romantic view of private automobiles he never learned to drive himself.<BR/><BR/>The Black Panther Party of the 1960's and 1970's tried to re-engineer society from the <I>inside</I>, pioneering programs such as free breakfast for children which are often taken for granted today.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately the United States of National Security in it's paranoid crusade against "communism" did not see how the BPP's growth and self-sufficiency agenda was in perfect harmony with the long-term needs of business even if they did threaten the corrupt businesses of a few slumlords. (Parallels can be drawn to the contemporary failure to find common ground in repeated negotiations with Vietnamese "communist" leaders.)<BR/><BR/>The federal government cannot provide effective response to highly empowered local threats such as drug dealers, so in the post apocalyptic era an agile network of independent guardian organizations has evolved, not only to provide private security but also public security and the "reeducation" of dysfunctional communities as seen in the <I>The Walkers</I> burning of the Kalua Club.<BR/><BR/>(Note that the highway system, such as it exists in the Post Apocalyptic era, is probably maintained by organizations like The Walkers, and shaped by who has use for the products they traffik.)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03072541194513236270noreply@blogger.com