Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

So, every time I come home, I end up talking with mom about all these theories she has about politics and the economy, based upon the wackiness in Washington. Yeah, it's a bit scary, because life-as-we-know-it is pretty darn good. If life could continue that way, awesome.

But there is this small part of me, the part that is just AMPED for the apocalypse, that would love to see the world just get turned upside down. I just want to see if I could survive in a dictatorship, if that is in fact where we are headed. I'd love to see how people would handle it. Would there be uprisings? How would morals and social norms change in the face of control?

I think perhaps that the world is just too big, and too small at the same time. Since we are so connected, we all get affected by, and involved in, things that would not have even been a part of our knowledge prior to radio, internet, long distance travel, etc. What if suddenly there was no power what-so-ever. Anywhere on the planet. Think of how life would change. We would have to divide out into little tribes and forage for our survival. Would we make it? I don't know! Chances are millions upon millions would die in the process. Modern medicine would be shot to heck too, so lots of people that live now would not live in a world without power. I don't think that the world-as-we-know-it is the natural state of being in the slightest. Nothing about the way we live is anything like the way life has been in the past. It's a bell curve. Societies rise and fall; up towards order, down towards chaos. Everything tends towards entropy, get on board or get out of the way. Change has always been, and will always be, the way things go. I don't like change, because I can't predict what will happen. But if change is going to happen regardless of my approval, I might as well step up and go with it. Just to see if I can.