September 30, 2010 Entry 36

Anarchy! According to Mr. Swanson, anarchy is quite close to happening. Apparently a bunch of countries have enough EMP to knock out the whole country's electricity and fry all the computers. This would probably lead to anarchy considering almost everything is recorded or even controlled by electric systems. All the refrigerated food would go bad. No one would have electricity for anything even if they had a generator. Actually, I guess that depends on if the EMP was continuous or only for a little bit like it usually is. This probably isn't really a good way to start an anarchy now that I think about it, so I'll write about what would happen after anarchy has arrived.

Unless the anarchy's method of arrival was to kill most the world's people, people would probably be killed by others searching for food and water. Unless everyone was already dead, probably most people would be killed by others. I've always liked thinking about what anarchy would be like. I think the electricity would run out pretty quickly, and it's always funny how in video games and movies about the end of the world, places almost always somehow still have power. The only situation I can think of where we'd still have power for a while, is if most the people died suddenly. Electricity would no longer be being used by most households, and it would focus on the live people using it.