Description
The Antecedent Patchwork of calamities presumably includes climate change, crop failure, exodus, unmentionable rhetoric, nuclear bomb. Little resistance, if any, would be put up to the gentle spiral, the catastrophe always someone else’s, somewhere else, inevitable, familiar, boring.
The promise of rescue through technological advance turned out to be something of a damp squid.
Residual society retreats to hollow metropoles and suburbs witch, though varied, are generally lifeless, individualistic, convenient, synthetic, semi-stable. Ordinary humans depend on flimsy regional governments, bogus corporate subscriptions, local hoarders of resources (landlords), etc.
Infrastructures was gradually ruined in the collapse, obviously. The Internet seems to be off. essential materials are unavailable, skills forgotten. Officially (apocryphally) the world « rebuilds ».
Paintings, books, musical instruments, etc. are generally hoarded, burnt for energy or otherwise lost. A steady diet of rubbish tech-food, amoral hyper-tainment and sedative mod-cons is available; conventional wosdom states that fresh food is a thing of the past, factory-animal pulp aside.
Despite all this, the birds, ungovernable, continue to sing.
Much of the rest of the surface of the plane has returned to the default state of things, and the particulars of the wilderness zone are by this point basically unkonown.
