[ SECRET POST #2948 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2948 ⌋

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Comments

[lb_lee]

It's definitely a power fantasy. The idea that when everyone else is panicking and eating each other, you will rise to the top and be a true badass. Which is fine, we all have our silly little escapist fantasies (I sometimes fantasize about my work being on TVtropes, or being in a documentary) but when you start mistaking it for reality, there's a problem.

Even if the Lone Badass apocalypse DID happen... I dunno that I'd WANT to survive it, if there weren't other folks to be around. Even if I COULD be totally self-sustaining as a hermit in the woods, and even though I can handle solitude, what's the point of being an artist or educator when there's no one around to teach or give art to? I'd probably end up that crazy old man pontificating at tree stumps and rocks, just to give myself something to do.

I tried reading Walking Dead, didn't really do much for me. Zombie stories have to have something different for me these days; humans surviving the zombie apocalypse is just kinda boring to me these days.

--Rogan

[(Anonymous)]

The only way Lone Badasses rise up in real life is because they have a support network around them that doesn't get any credit. Real loners are strictly subsistence level only. Every Clint Eastwood film ever peddles this lone wolf bullshit and I'm glad it's falling out of favour.

This was also the main thing I liked about the Walking Dead, the ensemble.

[lb_lee]

Yup. I liked World War Z for the same reason; it showed just how many people were doing different things to get things to work.

Occasionally, lone badasses show up when they're sole survivors of a plane crash or something. But that's all, and usually (god willing) their period of duress is relatively short.

Sometimes, I wonder if the reason some people backlash so hard when they hear about someone being trapped in a hellish abusive relationship is because they think Lone Badasses are how the world works. They don't understand that support systems are a necessity.

--Rogan