How Do We Deal With Disasters?
Apocalyptic scenarios of all kinds -- war, disease, zombies -- might seem irrelevant because they're such an exaggeration of the problems we tend to face. But the reality is that shows and movies like The Last of Us, Contagion, World War Z, and The Walking Dead offer incredible insight into how we deal with catastrophic problems.
Why is wiping out the problem with bombs so often our first reaction to a disaster? Why do we give up individual rights for the sake of a greater good that's often totally uncertain and that we can't even define? Why is the temptation to cede all control to the government so common?
Watching our world succumb to disaster is enticing, exciting, and immersive -- but when it's done right, we get insight into our real life processes when everything goes wrong. From Katrina to Waco, it's shocking how often our efforts to rein in tragedy actually end up making it worse.
We can learn from our mistakes and we can learn from our fiction. We just have to see it.
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CREDITS:
Written by Matt Hampton, Matt Tabor, and Sean W. Malone
Narrated by Matt Tabor
Produced by Paul Nelson, Matt Tabor
Edited by Michael Ozias
Assistant Edited by Abby Richardson
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The first answer to the question "what do we do now?" should be "anything that doesn't involve the government."
@panzerofthelake506
Жыл бұрын
AMEN
The scariest thing the government can do, is tell you they're here to help.
@someonenamedbob
Жыл бұрын
I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
@VickyShawcooksalot
Жыл бұрын
Yes that thought went through my mind. First time I heard it was from a cop.
@jegerslvjegers5380
Жыл бұрын
"Do not resist being rescued."
@ScotsBrah935
Жыл бұрын
@@someonenamedbob Ronald Reagan said it best
@zg-it
Жыл бұрын
Scariest thing government can do is exist.
I can’t hardly imagine how bad a real life pandemic would go.
@coltondodger
Жыл бұрын
Remember, Very rarely is tone conveyed in text.
@dickfacepeterson
Жыл бұрын
can't wait to go fishing
@Katzeyu
Жыл бұрын
America handled Covid very well
@dsc4178
Жыл бұрын
@@Katzeyu African nations ignored it and did even better. Sweden too.
And here we are in 2023 with WHO wanting everyone to sign their tidy documents that give them sole control over... well, everything. Because they did such a bang up job during Covid-19.
@Willy_Tepes
Жыл бұрын
The creation of a global police state in 2015 (Agenda 2030) was not voted on by the people. We were distracted by some orange clown.
@Leadlight280
Жыл бұрын
@@Willy_Tepes Trump?
@Willy_Tepes
Жыл бұрын
@@Leadlight280 Since he is running again, there is more they want us to not notice.
@TheMysteryDriver
Жыл бұрын
Everything Trump wanted to do they wouldn't let him do. Called him racist/xenophobic. Etc.
@Willy_Tepes
Жыл бұрын
@@TheMysteryDriver A president without power, lol. Our system of government is insane.
Humanity is far greater than anyone gives us credit for.
@TheSiprianus
Жыл бұрын
Don't you know that the trendy view is that "humans are parasites of the earth?" Forget that 'mother earth' has always selected organisms using the "only the strong one survives" rule.
@logantidwell7698
Жыл бұрын
We are our own worst critics
@mightytaiger3000
Жыл бұрын
We pat ourselves on the back enough. It’s through thinking we’re the sht that we justify all the nonsense that we do. Look at the average entertainment event and how much trash and other damage it produces just for people to numb themselves for an hour or 2.
"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
Ok this is weird - i *live* in Pennsylvania and had never heard of the Philly bombings until a week ago in another KZread video and now i hear it again in *this* video... freakig Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.
@TheMysteryDriver
Жыл бұрын
It's become more popular to bring up in the last year.
I’m so happy this series has returned.
Those that forget our past are destined to repeat the same mistakes. I know that's not the exact words but same message. All this removing historical statues and landmarks is actually by design. That's what the goal is for all that.
The Gipper said it best "The worst words are I'm from the federal government and im here to help" ....no thanks!! Well that's cause SARS was an early test run by NIH/NIAID.....TPTB wanted central control this time, so thats why they went that route, "fixing the problem" as secondary, look at how they treated alternative treatments, esp pre jab? THey knew if an effective treatment was out there an EUA for the jab was not allowed. As for the A bombs, Japan should be thankful it happened, if it hadn't & Japan was just waiting to be attacked by troops the USSR would get there first, and unlike Americans who recoiled in horror at seeing movie footage of Tarawa raids on film and wounded Marines in train cars, very foreshadowing of Vietnam to come, the Soviets would not care one lick about casualties. First off, the public would likely never know, and after greasing 12 million to defeat the Germans, what's a few million more, especially with knowing the cold war was coming, having Japan as a warmwater naval station and unsinkable aircraft carrier, along with North Korea and Manchuria, they would have fought their usual brutal fighting style which the US would not have been able to tolerate the % of casualties the USSR would. Also don't forget what the USSR did to German women on the road to Berlin, the road to Tokyo would have been just as bad. Yeah, it sucks for the ppl of both cities affected, but they in effectively sacrificed themselves for the rest of the country not getting ground up and turned into the Democratic Socialist Republic of Japan. Course we could also go down the rabbit hole of how WW2 was an engineered crisis by said TPTB to centralize control, so in essence, your original premise is still applicable, decentralized is best, but rarely are events in our lives just about the event itself its usually brought about for a greater purpose. I would suggest looking up the Milken health conference in Oct 2019 and watch the one with Fauci and ppl from HHS and the NYT, IIRC as the media stooge asking fauci "there must be some way??? we can speed along jab development?? to which Fauci says to the effect of, egg based jabs take a decade or more to make and test, but if there was a heath emergency or some new way of looking at Influenza, they could go around those rules...if he was on trial and it was played hed be given the chair in like 5 minutes....kzread.info/dash/bejne/oomOytyGn8iue6Q.html Sadly we as a society failed both the Milgrim and Ache experiments, badly.......interesting tho the ratio of jabbed to unjabbed is about the same as ppl that complied vs non complied in Milgrim, tho....food for thought.
We can’t continue to look at the cvid response as a mad rush to contain and find a cure because it wasn’t.
@mustang607
Жыл бұрын
We never did find the cure, but we did find many who put forward ideas that would help reduce the problems, and many of those were canceled for it.
“Remember, it isn't the snake bite that does the serious damage; it's chasing the snake that drives the poison to the heart.” ― Covey, Stephen R.
@eavyeavy2864
10 ай бұрын
Sure lets not kill the snakes
Thanks! Good one.
Somehow plague inc got it right where government failed.
@anondabomb
Жыл бұрын
Hey look, I somehow got the first spot.
We're screwed, aren't we?
@christophermarkee5445
Жыл бұрын
It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.
@AsylumEscapade
Жыл бұрын
Yup Better get right with Christ.
@TheMysteryDriver
Жыл бұрын
Nah. You just have to rely on towns and farms. City people are screwed. Suburban people without gardens are screwed.
I would be quietly toiling away with my shovel as a Poop Smith in the QZ
There is no way we are saving ourselves for anything.🤷
This video is definitely being suppressed. 305,000 subscribers but only 7,500 views in 2 days?
Love Ted lasso. Pretty good feel good show
"Shouldn't we turn to the Government?" Well, that's how we got into this now, isn't it?
I'd be Bill
Just wait for Covid part II.
@TheMysteryDriver
Жыл бұрын
Covid 2: electric boogaloo
Shout out to Mayor Wilson B. Goode, and his creative urban renewal program for Philadelphia...😒
This is a good take, exaggeration and overestimation is hilarious. ;-;
Roll credits.
5:00 what's that movie?
I stopped watching this channel for a while because of the forced subtitles, I just can't I don't know why. I'm not a fourteen-year-old girl. Happy to see them gone.
Update
The big difference between the first SARS outbreak and the COVID-19 is in how contagious each was. There was no action by the CDC that made the first SARS outbreak turn out better, in fact, both were treated much the same, but because SARS was less contagious, it was contained easily, and stopped. We can actually see similar in many areas that has Zero COVID policies. Even though COVID-19 was too contagious to absolutely stop, these areas did buy time by avoiding the most lethal strains of COVID-19 and "living with" the less lethal ones like Omicron.
Cant wait for this channel take on Oppenheimer the movie
Well NYC city loaded up refrigerator trucks
@TheBmonster1
Жыл бұрын
During covid
They made sara black?! why are you even talking about this garbage
@bdslade
Жыл бұрын
lmao
@Leadlight280
Жыл бұрын
Black people? Truly the end of the western world, I'm so triggered at black people existing.
I really never saw the appeal in The Last of Us at all as a franchise. Uncharted is leagues better.
@DVincentW
Жыл бұрын
Franchise is a selling tool. The great zombie films were not a sales tool. Mostly George Romero say volumes about societies sickness. Futility of fighting to survive only to end up food then shambling and snarling. Don't watch stuff you don't enjoy.
@Dremaus1911
Жыл бұрын
last of us 1 is better (before the Ellies back story stuff )
@lainiwakura1776
Жыл бұрын
Good for you, aren't you special just like everyone else.
@thelordz33
Жыл бұрын
It had one good game and that's about it
@hariman7727
Жыл бұрын
The Last of Us is nihilistic "HUMANZ ARE BADZ!" fiction, and is utter stupid insulting TRASH that relies on half the cast being stupid.
5:24 You dare compare Hiroshima with Stalin because they're both from the government? Libertarians only see government like a hammer that sees a nail.
@nickglunz7333
Жыл бұрын
I am a libertarian and I agree with your first statement and with the overall sentiment. We often talk about when the military and police act as hammers when we needed a scalpel but so often that is not the case. Plenty of times in Iraq I would have loved to be a hammer and was ordered to be pillow. This wasn't a ground decision it came from generals and politicians. History shows that government fucks things up which is why we limits it's power and hold it accountable not remove all of it's power. Many libertarians don't see that or forget it.
@hariman7727
Жыл бұрын
The Government of the United States: -Poisoned alcohol, killing thousands, during prohibition. -Left people with syphilis untreated in The Tuskegee experiments. -Has put parents who want to have control over what schools show their children, including wanted to STOP school administrators from showing pornographic materials to elementary school aged children PUT ON A TERROR WATCH LIST. -Has ignored pro life centers being firebombed and attacked, centers that oppose abortion. AKA: Medically killing unborn babies. -Has seen the FBI CONFIRMABLY work with a political candidate to smear said candidate's opponent. -Waco Texas, Ruby Ridge, The Viper Militia, the Gretchen Whitmer "kidnapping plot", and more Don't defend the government. This list is just a fraction of the crimes and crimes against humanity commited.
@NativeNewMexican
Жыл бұрын
Even if that's true, it doesn't make them wrong. It could be on par with saying "everything evil is bad". Imagine if we played a game where you provided examples of government doing something good and in response I explain how that same thing was done or would have been done better without it. How many examples would it take for you to be convinced that yes, government is _always_ bad? Think of it this way: there are only two ways of getting someone else to do something they didn't want to do: persuade or coerce. We use different words for activities that use those two different methods. Trade vs. robbery, vacationing vs. kidnapping, houseguest vs. prisoner, lovemaker vs. rapist. Every single one of the things government does requires them to initiate force, fraud, or coercion on peaceful people by its definition. Thing is, you can have rules and enforcement of those rules without government.
@tjedwards4254
Жыл бұрын
@NativeNewMexican you had me until the end. True libertarianism requires eliminating the justice system in favor of some glorified form of vigilante-ism. "But sometimes they get it wrong," and that's wrong. but we need order and rules that are backed up with the threat of force to keep peace. Humans are not naturally moral. There must be a system of protecting rights and liberties. The logical conclusion of pure libertarianism is anarchy, which is neither just or possible. Yes government bad. But humans bad too. One day, if humans conquer the evil inside, there will be no need for government. The better and more moral a people, the more responsible they can be with liberty.
@NativeNewMexican
Жыл бұрын
@@tjedwards4254 How does it require "vigilante-ism"? What happens if a frenchman and a german have a kerfuffle in alsace lorraine? There's negotiation in which set of law is applied and how. Is that vigilante-ism or is the german represented by german lawmen, the frenchman by french lawmen, and the community represented by alsace lorraine lawmen. Policemen, lawyers, etc. were handled by private organizations for centuries in most countries before governments took it over and said, "this is our providence".
The only problem with the show us that Neil cuckman hates Joel and masculinity hence why the show removes the games grayness of his choice to save ellie by saying they COULD make a cure when the original script that was experienced in the game they had no idea if they could gain any useful information from her dead body. That's also why the underage lesbian boning story is in the show too. The show is still woke propaganda by a woke writer who hates men because he's not a real one himself.
@DVincentW
Жыл бұрын
Damn, to an extent you're correct. I am sure that after HBO becomes Max, they might try to cleanse shows like The Sopranos, or OZ, even The Wire. Cancel culture is violence.
@bdslade
Жыл бұрын
lmao
What do we do now? Modern movies and shows taught me that I shall stop procreating and open every border to every refugee to accept diversity and inclusion.
@hariman7727
Жыл бұрын
Reject modernity. Return to Godliness. Better yourself with God's help, build a family.
@Leadlight280
Жыл бұрын
Sure buddy, you definitely didn't forget your schizo meds.
@user-ur4sx9rb2y
Жыл бұрын
@@Leadlight280 As you are bruv
There is also the myopic view centralization being a problem considering many of our revolutionary innovations came from centralization. The USSR made the first mobile phone system (Altia), Sputnik, Tetris, and put the first man in space, central planning from the government gave us the internet, vaccines, microchips, GPS, touchscreens, etc. and the vast teams at JPL and NASA put a man on the moon, and gave us camera phones, athletic shoes, laptops, wireless headsets/headphones, formula milk, 'jaws of life', etc. You seem insistent in addressing all the world's issues on one factor/concept which is naive and short sighted and failed to realize that the truth is more complicated than that.
@stillbuyvhs
11 ай бұрын
Tetris was made independently, on the programmer's own time.
@comiccid1
11 ай бұрын
@@stillbuyvhs He couldn't have done that on his own as he used Soviet resources at the Soviet Academy of Science, and it was the economic structure of the Soviet Union that gave him the time to make it, and he relied on the computer programming set up by Soviet scientists. This proves my statement, that a centralized government helped make many great innovations.
@leonardonetagamer
9 ай бұрын
@@comiccid1 yeah they put a man in space ... at the cost of millions of lives and personal freedom in the soviet union, you might say its worth it, but the United States did the same without the cost, evidently one way is better than another.
@comiccid1
9 ай бұрын
@@leonardonetagamer What are you talking about? Millions of lives were not sacrificed in order to put a man in space. All of the events that happened during Stalin occurred decades before the space race, Stalin had nothing to do with the space race. If you are going to conflate the dictatorship of Stalin with the space race, then that means you will have to conflate slavery and the Native American genocide with being necessary for putting a man on the moon. Do you have any idea how stupid you sound? Even so, the United States had to utilize our own form of socialism in order to put a man on the moon, as it was taxpayer dollars and government programs that achieved it, not private industries and corporations.
@leonardonetagamer
9 ай бұрын
@@comiccid1 they didn't "have to" they did because it seemed easier, (and because they had to hide their nazi friends(
With current society, I wish a Zombie apocalypse happens right now.
@theobserver3299
Жыл бұрын
👁️ 👄 👁️
@DVincentW
Жыл бұрын
Do you really want to be eaten alive by a neighbor, or friend, even a relative? Do you want to be downwind of a horde of zeds, the smell would be off the scale. Yeah it sounds like fun. I'm down.
@hariman7727
Жыл бұрын
Look up the greentext on South African Tourism in Johannesburg.
@TheMysteryDriver
Жыл бұрын
@@DVincentWi mean, if you own a few guns, lots of ammo, and don't live in a populated city, the zombie apocalypse might go pretty unnoticed you know? Heck if you live in some of the towns in AZ, Utah, NV etc the apocalypse will literally only be on TV.
i didnt liked the second game nor the show.. .the first , original, is the best
Unless you're a lone wolf, you got govt. If you're a lone wolf, you die alone. And probably sooner than if you had others to help. And others means govt.
@mightytaiger3000
Жыл бұрын
An original way of saying “what about the roads?!”