Post Apocalyptic Civilizations (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

Science, Futurism, Sci Fi, Future, Scifi, Technology, Space, Engineering

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The End of the World is a popular topic in science fiction and a source of serious worry for modern civilizations. If Doomsday comes, what can a Prepper do to survive and what would those civilizations look like? How long would recovery take and what technologies would remain? Just how grim is such a possible future? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/QWmEgu1iP_E Try Dashlane here: https://www.dashlane.com/isaacarthur Get 10% off now with my promo code: isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Social Media: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Credits: Rogue Civilizations: Post-Apocalyptic Civilizations Episode 182a, Season 5 E16 Written by: Isaac Arthur Editors: Darius Said Jerry Guern Mark Warburton Matthew Campbell Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Manager: Luca DeRosa - [email protected] Music: Scott Buckley, "Red" http://www.scottbuckley.com.au Taras Harkavyi, "Alpha and..." https://www.discogs.com/artist/625697-Taras-Harkavyi Stellardrone, "Between the Rings" https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners.
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0:23.0	Civilization has collapsed.
0:25.1	The only rational way forward is to cover your dune buggy with spikes,
0:29.3	craft some leather, S&M armor, and resort to cannibalism.
0:33.4	Mohawks are optional.
0:36.7	A pretty common theme in science fiction, and just in general discussion of the future, is that
0:42.1	some sort of doomsday will occur that will leave only shattered remnants of civilization
0:47.0	behind, often shattered not just physically, but spiritually too.
0:53.0	Typically that remnant left behind is portrayed as crazy
0:55.9	cannibal barbarians. Even the nominal heroes of such stories tend to be nihilistic and more
1:02.2	than a trifle villainous in portrayal. There's some logic in that notion too. We get the word
1:08.2	apocalypse from the Greek word for Revelation, the last book of the
1:11.9	New Testament, that has the various survivors on Earth being those left behind after all the
1:17.2	good folks got a ticket to paradise.
1:19.6	And a lot of stories set in such scenarios will have similar notions in play.
1:24.4	Something has made a lot of folks crazy or evil, and that's part of why civilization
1:29.0	isn't rebuilding itself to rise from the ashes like a phoenix. This has some plausibility,
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