Comment Re:Agree / Disagree (Score 2) 85
We've never been able to survive on our own in the advent of a catastrophe. If you were a subsistence farmer in Europe, and there was an extended drought your crops failed and you died. Extended winter? Your stores failed and you died. Had slightly impacted wisdom teeth? You got a massive dental infection and you died. A foreigner accidentally tracks a new species of weed onto your farm that's poisonous? You either have to kill it off aggressively, or experimentally eat it - and well, you died.
This is rugged individualism fiction of a uniquely American kind. Human history takes a dim view individualism and had a way of dealing with: you died.