Nurture, Nature, Crafting a New Society

Human Nature, an unscientific survey.
Dave Pollard asks, "If, because of cataclysmic war, disease, act of terrifying violence, economic collapse, or natural disaster, a large part of the planet, including the part where you live now, were to suffer a massive, gradual, and sustained collapse of infrastructure, law and order, what percentage of the population do you think would do each of the following:" The choices are on his page.

I know my answers were optimistic but I tend to think that in a crunch, humans are resourceful, helpful and that a good percentage of us are reasonable. I also believe that if the US were to leave Iraq immediately, stop the occupation and provide funding and expertise to fix what we broke (to put it mildly), the Iraqis are more than capable of crafting their own society, albeit not our vision of what we would like to see. How they rebuild is going to tell us a lot about ourselves and what we might do if faced with similar conditions. posted by Cyndy | link | | |
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