One problem I also have with Walking Dead is the unrealistic level of arsenals and vehicles. Mad Max level guns and cars is not realistic. We'd legit have to go back to swords and shields---but that's another chapter.
What you find in the hood, along with poverty, is a poisonous level of ambition and easy credit/debt.
That why the hungriest are still able to get fresh and buy cars.
In a Walking Dead universe there is no TV, no IG, no flexxing.
Look at the early settlers in America. They actually got along with the Natives until those calls for expansion (modern trappings of conquest).
I'd argue black people--outside of the rights we fought for--were fine before credit and the crack trade (and the luxury that followed) came.
Even Freeway Rick Ross was like; it was really just about the basics. He didn't even spent that much of his money he got. Make him a kingpin today, he's prolly living in a 8 room mansion and flexing on IG, making music.
Chicago is fukked up because of gun trafficking no one wants to talk about.
I'm from New Orleans--a high level of poverty and unemployment.
Also, peep this;
But Actually ...
Ask yourself this: If humans naturally become murderous sociopaths in the absence of modern society, then how did modern society ever form in the first place?
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"Man, I am so bored, there's nothing to do ... oh, wait, I got it: civilization."
"Dude, brilliant."
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The whole freaking reason we have a civilization for the zombies to destroy is because humans are naturally cooperative. You don't need to take our word for it -- studies performed by researchers at Harvard and Yale found that our basic human nature dictates an overwhelming need to cooperate with other humans, even if said cooperation results in some measure of harm to ourselves. Biologists say the same thing. Despite what the self-checkout line at Harris Teeter may have led you to believe, humans actually give a decent-sized shyt about one another.
In recent regional crises like Atlanta's blizzard-induced traffic gridlock and Hurricane Sandy, examples of basic human kindness weren't difficult to find. When serious tragedy hits a community, most people's first impulse is to see what they can to do help their neighbors, rather than to carry all of their canned food into the basement and start loading their shotguns. It's not even because we're nice guys -- it's because instinctively we know that we might need that person down the road. So even if some worldwide crisis were to transform us all into selfish mutants, the theory of reciprocal altruism suggests that we'd probably still be willing to share that can of beanie weenies if it meant we could get something in return later, even if that something is just "an extra person I can feed to the zombies to make my getaway."
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It is not advisable to offer yourself as zombie fodder in return for a future favor.
That's the biggest thing missing from a show like The Walking Dead or a movie like The Road: commerce. They shouldn't have to scavenge in vacant houses for food or medicine; somebody should be going camp to camp selling that shyt in exchange for bullets, sex, protection, or whatever. Hell, even monkeys can figure that out.
Ask yourself this: If humans naturally become murderous sociopaths in the absence of modern society, then how did modern society ever form in the first place?
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"Man, I am so bored, there's nothing to do ... oh, wait, I got it: civilization."
"Dude, brilliant."
Continue Reading Below
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The whole freaking reason we have a civilization for the zombies to destroy is because humans are naturally cooperative. You don't need to take our word for it -- studies performed by researchers at Harvard and Yale found that our basic human nature dictates an overwhelming need to cooperate with other humans, even if said cooperation results in some measure of harm to ourselves. Biologists say the same thing. Despite what the self-checkout line at Harris Teeter may have led you to believe, humans actually give a decent-sized shyt about one another.
In recent regional crises like Atlanta's blizzard-induced traffic gridlock and Hurricane Sandy, examples of basic human kindness weren't difficult to find. When serious tragedy hits a community, most people's first impulse is to see what they can to do help their neighbors, rather than to carry all of their canned food into the basement and start loading their shotguns. It's not even because we're nice guys -- it's because instinctively we know that we might need that person down the road. So even if some worldwide crisis were to transform us all into selfish mutants, the theory of reciprocal altruism suggests that we'd probably still be willing to share that can of beanie weenies if it meant we could get something in return later, even if that something is just "an extra person I can feed to the zombies to make my getaway."
It is not advisable to offer yourself as zombie fodder in return for a future favor.
That's the biggest thing missing from a show like The Walking Dead or a movie like The Road: commerce. They shouldn't have to scavenge in vacant houses for food or medicine; somebody should be going camp to camp selling that shyt in exchange for bullets, sex, protection, or whatever. Hell, even monkeys can figure that out.
@Robbie3000 ^^^