Visions apocolyptic

This morning I wandered, quite early, into my local supermarket.

It was perfect. Every shelf was fully stocked. The fruit was geometrically piled and glowing. People were scarce.

It made me think of the mountains of industry that enables the shelves to fill every day. Suppliers, growers, technology companies, distribution, and so much more.

At (heh heh) the weekend I was reading about ISIS, the Iraqi group. I was led to believe that they are robber barons that finance themselves by theft and stand-over tactics and keep their people fed through access to foreign supplies purchased on the black market.

I was told that, by themselves, they can’t keep any complex supply chain motivated. Apart from the killing machine that is.

The implication was that if we let them and their ilk succeed there won’t be any foreign supplies to tap into.

It will be back to pre-industrial times but post-apocalyptic due to the weapons and other residual technology.