<story><title>Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/apocalypse-fiction-texas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oneoff786</author><text>Apocalypse stories don’t often make sense. The energy and fuel situations are usually bonkers. The hordes of people who turn into lunatics is silly. Cooperation is natural and good.&lt;p&gt;My favorite post apocalyptic cult is the one featured in A Quiet Place 2. This world features aliens that will kill anyone who makes a sound. The protagonists are captured by this cult of like 30 people with little intro to who the hell they are. They do this strongman creepy virtue signaling for a while and then tie up Jim’s replacement with some noisy chains on a dock. Surprise surprise, Not Jim makes a noise (not with the chains for some reason), and sure enough the entire cult is immediately wiped out.&lt;p&gt;…&lt;p&gt;How did these people canonically survive for so long doing these dumbass shenanigans?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jason-phillips</author><text>&amp;gt; Cooperation is natural and good.&lt;p&gt;Recently, after seeing people from Dallas haul their trailers to my small Texas town&amp;#x27;s grocery store so as to pillage our remaining toilet paper stock, my faith in the rational ability of my fellow Man has been somewhat reduced.</text></comment>
<story><title>Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/apocalypse-fiction-texas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oneoff786</author><text>Apocalypse stories don’t often make sense. The energy and fuel situations are usually bonkers. The hordes of people who turn into lunatics is silly. Cooperation is natural and good.&lt;p&gt;My favorite post apocalyptic cult is the one featured in A Quiet Place 2. This world features aliens that will kill anyone who makes a sound. The protagonists are captured by this cult of like 30 people with little intro to who the hell they are. They do this strongman creepy virtue signaling for a while and then tie up Jim’s replacement with some noisy chains on a dock. Surprise surprise, Not Jim makes a noise (not with the chains for some reason), and sure enough the entire cult is immediately wiped out.&lt;p&gt;…&lt;p&gt;How did these people canonically survive for so long doing these dumbass shenanigans?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walls</author><text>&amp;gt; The hordes of people who turn into lunatics is silly.&lt;p&gt;The hordes of lunatics already exist, and are just waiting for something to happen.</text></comment>