I've been thinking about this topic and a bit from a fantastic book called World War Z came to mind. The episode I'm refering to describes, in all seriousness, floods of urban refugees fleeing a zombie uprising (sounds silly but it's very well done, IMO). Large groups of people camping out in their cars, trucks, buses, RVs, etc, cooperating, helping each other out etc. It all goes pretty well at first. Then, the food runs out. Things get very uncivil pretty quickly after that point.
It makes perfect sense. Most people are likely to work together at first, but then, once the pressure becomes too great, there's going to be conflict.
What's that saying? "There are three kinds of people in this world: sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs." Something like that? I can't attribute this to anyone. Do any of you know where this comes from? I think about it a lot in reference to T2K.
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