nowhere is this exhibited more than in a natural disaster situation--when it comes to being forced out of the luxurious state we take for granted, it pays a lot more to just be able to trust your neighbors and share resources until things get better than to isolate yourself and stockpile 200 cans of inedible bean paste that won't expire for 10 years and hope you can subsist on that.
this is also, incidentally, why people like reddit administrator spez are delusional if they think they can escape the unraveling of human civilization by just absconding to a secure facility they own--if society collapses or something, your previous position in society is meaningless, and it's going to pay you a lot more dividends to be the cool neighbor who everyone likes and not the neighborhood asshole everyone finds insufferable.
The 'lone man on the mountain' idea is a myth.
nowhere is this exhibited more than in a natural disaster situation--when it comes to being forced out of the luxurious state we take for granted, it pays a lot more to just be able to trust your neighbors and share resources until things get better than to isolate yourself and stockpile 200 cans of inedible bean paste that won't expire for 10 years and hope you can subsist on that.
this is also, incidentally, why people like reddit administrator spez are delusional if they think they can escape the unraveling of human civilization by just absconding to a secure facility they own--if society collapses or something, your previous position in society is meaningless, and it's going to pay you a lot more dividends to be the cool neighbor who everyone likes and not the neighborhood asshole everyone finds insufferable.