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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
[...]Interesting factoid, there were people (aside from the Amish) as late as the 1980's who hadn't gotten electricity yet (they still burned oil lamps), didn't have access to supermarket foods, or phones, no running water (it was all hand pumped water, melted snow, rivers, etc), lived in dugouts (a type of half in the ground house), and lived in much the same way as our ancestors did around the turn of the century. Heck, there's still lots of places in Alaska that have no roads to them, and a surprising number with no running water, no power, etc. No joke. [...]
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And the sorts of places where there are a large proportion of such people are the sorts of places that could be better isolated from some apocalyptic event. You can imaginge the few survivors stranded in what's left of the cities, struggling to work out how to get back their access to Wikipedia to read how to rebuild their world, only to find tribes on their doorstep telling them, "We're your new bosses." Puts a new slant on the old "and the meek shall inherit the earth"
