Ben Bradford
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
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I love this question, and I'm just incredibly fascinated by it.
But post-apocalypse movies and all those kind of works are play routes, right?
They're fantasy worlds in which you have this kind of, you know, a lone survivor or a group of survivors hardened by the world decide that other people are the enemy.
And I think that when you even look at how people prepare, like, you know, you have the prepper community for these kind of post-apocalypse scenarios, what you find is that it's sort of based around this idea that other people are the enemy.
That's the zombie movie thing, right?
The true enemy is people.
Right.
That's the walking dead is the people who are actually living.
And one of the things that's incredible to me is that when you look at history and you try to find past events that.
are apocalyptic to a civilization, to a wide area, the picture of what happens after is very, very different.
And the thing, like, I don't really want to call it hopeful because I don't think any of us want to be in this scenario, but the thing that we see people do over and over is band together to rebuild society.
All these things that I can do on like the wilderness survival side, the going off alone and, you know, foraging for food.
That is not what people did.
And that is probably not what's going to be helpful.
The thing that is helpful, the thing that people have done historically is rebuild their communities.
The other thing that I heard when I was investigating this particular topic, like our post-apocalypse, is that the people who would be most successful or maybe the most vital would be people who are good planners and critical thinkers and organizers and communicators.
you know, like basically politics, bureaucracy, communication.
And the reason for that is it's a lot easier to get fit and strong than it is to develop the skills to be a good collaborator.
And the post-apocalypse, it turns out, is almost certainly a group project rather than being solo in bunkers.
I don't want to be too kumbaya, but the more I do this, the more I look into this, I kind of think that community is the answer.
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