Fight the Fight

So I just watched “The Mist” which is a movie based on a Stephen Kind Novella. It has a lot of the standard suspense / SciFi / Horror elements you’d expect. But it also has a major plot component in common with another King book, The Stand. This plot component for the most part is, for me, one of the scariest things that comes to mind. It’s the breakdown of civilization as a result of catastrophic events.

I’m not sure where my fear came from. It may have been from watching the LA Riots as a kid. Maybe just observing the fear permeate everything in the aftermath of Oklahoma City and 9/11. Some of it I can trace back to studying sociology and the history of modern examples of such things happening. It’s the complete absence of civil behavior that results in the infringement of inherent human rights with no basis for doing so.

It’s just one of those things that I hope people have enough wits about themselves to keep their heads in the face of adversity, and it may be pessimism but don’t think most can overcome groupthink. It seems that there are too many little pockets of society that continue to thrive based on the notion of perpetuating fear within the populace.

But now I’m on the edge of getting into specifics, and I could go on for thousands of words in examples and analysis when it’s completely unnecessary in this forum. It’s just a small window into one of the few things that really scares me. I’ve never met an anarchist who really understood what it would really mean.