Welcome to an ongoing end of the world!
We live in a world of overspecialisation.
We know who to call, email, write to if there is a problem with internet, water, gas supply. We know which company to choose to clean our carpets, tidy the garden and deliver shopping, based on internet reviews. We get others to trim our hair, make our shoes and bake our bread. We become people who take photos, design rock gardens, translate, write sarcastic reviews or walk other people's dogs for a living.
I know that most people faced with some apocalyptic scenario will stand up proudly and declare that it is not so bloody difficult to grow crops and skin prey and make shelter. To survive cold and sew clothes and make a fire. To make a knife and a bow and a toilet.
Is it really such an easy task to all of a sudden be responsible for every single aspect of your own life to an extent not known to most humans for the better part of the last hundred years, my proud friends? Without a collective knowledge of wikipedia, foras and instant communication with people who have hands on experience: farmers, hunters, tailors, plumbers and mums? Without ever handling a dead animal, not being faced with manual dexterity task since P3 and gagging at the thought of wearing same clothes for a month?
Species that overspecialise die out.
Welcome to an ongoing end of the world!
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