If every society collapsed tomorrow in an apocalyptic event, and the only written literature left was copies of books you own, how would post-apocalypse society fare?
If every society collapsed tomorrow in an apocalyptic event...
Samuel Rivera
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Alexander Gray
they would be based and redpilled, have a ton of esoteric knowledge, but not much practical knowledge to go on besides a calculus textbook
Nathaniel Moore
Pretty well, considering my collection was made partly in preparation of this event.
Landon Hill
So you mean to say that they would probably be too busy discussing philosophy to realize they are all dying of sickness and starvation?
Levi Taylor
they would be racing towards the future without a moment's consideration for the present
Sebastian Moore
Pretty well if they actually read them.
Zachary Carter
full speed ahead facing backwards
Blake Bell
we'd probably be nazis
Jonathan Wood
>Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time. Peace will again establish itself between two periods and there regain the meaning which we have tried to give them. Not all our books will perish, nor our statues, if broken, lie unrepaired; other domes and pediments will rise from our domes and pediments; some few men will think and work and feel as we have done, and I venture to count upon such continuators, placed irregularly throughout the centuries, and upon this kind of intermittent immortality.
- Marguerite Yourcenar (from Memoirs of Hadrian, the best book that none of you dumb fucks have read)
>If a book is lost, then someone will write it again eventually. That should be enough immortality for anyone
-Jorge Luis Borges
Christian Perez
It wouldn't