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jonny2mad · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 2429 Location: weston super mare

A good film that shows a bit about a fictional dieoff set in ireland,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUKfWZJkfgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH66dngiW0Y

I unlike biff believe that we are heading for a collapse, not transition towns and people on bicycles, but at some point fast collapse and massive die-off .

The survivalist makes some mistakes like not making his own weapons and just generally the way he lives is barmy but it has some good points
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jonny2mad · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 2429 Location: weston super mare

Well his idea of collapse certainly is not mine
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kenneal - lagger · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2016 4:10 am Post subject:

Nor mine!

Why was he running around with his gun broken when he did have any cartridges it? I would have thought it would be safe enough to rely on the safety catch only with no cartridges!!
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Potemkin Villager · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1003 Location: Narnia

Norniron seems an appropriate individualist cultural setting for this low budget zero sum game of throne. I can only assume it is intended as an ironic take on just how poor a survival strategy survivalism is.

The insanely over foleyed sound track is so painful to listen to I think I will pass on this post apocalypse porn.

Others no doubt will find it perfect wet dream material.
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jonny2mad · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 2429 Location: weston super mare

I actually liked the sound track, if you live on your own for a while your sense of sound increases especially if any sound could warn of a attack . I think trying to survive alone in somewhere like ireland would be very hard unless you lived mainly underground .

But it would also be very hard near impossible to live in small communitys or any community that tried to have the same social standards we have today .

Basically because anything you grew would be stolen, and you would be swamped by more mouths than you could feed.

Thats why the community at the end have strong in group outgroup barriers and are very well armed and alert .

What happens to your transition town when swamped by starving desperate people it collapses .

The uk survives because it has cheap fuel and imports food you have a system keeping citys and the sort of people in most of the country alive when that goes, I think something like this film is looking at the sunny cheerful side
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"What causes more suffering in the world than the stupidity of the compassionate?"Friedrich Nietzsche

optimism is cowardice oswald spengler

jonny2mad · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 2429 Location: weston super mare

UndercoverElephant · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 10:44 pm Post subject:

Little John · Joined: 08 Mar 2008 Posts: 6015 Location: UK

Yes, indeed it is, as I have grown it a few times.....and very nice it was too.... Smile

emordnilap · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 10:30 am Post subject:

That's a common sense post, UE. "Survival of the fittest" applies to groups of animals (including humans) but doesn't really work for individuals.
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UndercoverElephant · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:36 am Post subject:

kenneal - lagger · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:41 pm Post subject:

But if you're on your own only your own generation will survive. Animals, including human ones, usually wish for their genetic line to survive so solitary survival doesn't cut it.
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