Ken,
Ever wonder what would happen if our society lost it's power grid?
I like to debate people that have a high opinion of our society compared to our ancestors. They tout all the inventions we've come up with and how primitive our ancestors were blah blah blah. When I ask them how much they had a hand in inventing those things and if they could reinvent them if they had to they become strangely silent. A very small percentage of our species are brilliant at anything and most are just consumers. Most of our species are just followers and couldn't light a fire without matches if their life depended on it. And they wouldn't have a clue on how to harvest and prepare wild game, and even less of them once the bullets, manufactured steel, and gun powder ran out.
Just musing of course.
