Revolution: World Turned Upside Down

Revolution was one of the best series to come out in the last 2 decades, it’s a show about life in post apocalyptic America. 

It is described as in Wikipedia: 

“The series is set in a post-apocalyptic near-future, in the year 2027. Fifteen years earlier, in the year 2012, a worldwide event known as "The Blackout" caused all electricity on Earth, ranging from computers and electronics to car and jet engines, to be disabled permanently. 

As a result, trains and cars stopped where they were, ships went dead in the water, and aircraft plummeted from the sky and crashed. In the years after the Blackout, people adapted to this new world without electricity. Because government and public order collapsed, several areas are ruled by militias and their generals.”

Not only was it a good drama, it was a survivalists and preppers dream. Looking back on it there were so many great lessons from it. Basically what do you do when the lights go out. What are you willing to do to protect your family? What are you willing to do to survive? Especially when your world is turned upside down. Do you step up? 

This is the core part of the show. Two US Marine Corp friends do step up and end up creating an empire called the Monroe Republic, that runs a big part of the eastern seaboard. Another major antagonist was formerly a mild mannered compassionate insurance adjuster who turns into a ruthless driven militia officer in order to ensure his family's safety. 

On the reverse side, one of the characters is a super rich Google executive who finds himself mal-adapted to the new survival of the fittest world. He is out of shape and pretty much useless. He relies on the charity and compassion of his friends. I don’t know about you but I certainly do not want to be that guy in this situation. I don’t care how rich you are, you are not a real man or truly free if you are not healthy, mentally fit and able to protect yourself and your family. 

I think a lot about this in the situation that the world is in right now. Up is becoming down, down is becoming up. So many underlying trends are arising. Massive incoming geo-political, technological and financial changes so many of us accustomed to tremendous prosperity and comfort are mal-adapted for the future. 

This is due to people’s laziness, blindness, ignorance, fear of change and maybe  an attitude of “better the devil we know than one we don’t” that they prefer to keep their heads down like an ostrich hoping that they will be okay. Hope is not a strategy and reality doesn’t care who or what you did before. 

So it’s important that you are macro aware but micro focused on getting ready. It’s going to be a rough ride where only the fittest survive like in “Revolutions”, albeit probably not as severe as it was in the show I am sure, but these next few years will be rough. However, out of great challenges come great opportunities.