[michaelwilson]

Heh. Read the news lately?

. Religious Cults. If you look at the religiously inspired insanity in US Laws and Politics recently, coupled with what's going on in, say, Afganistan, I'd say "check".

. Doomsday preppers. Check.

. All sorts of irrational behaviors. Well, if you include enabling destructive climate change in the face of overwhelming evidence, I'd say Check.

It's almost like we read all those stories and said "Hold my Beer".

[dylan604]

Or those stories based their plots on these real life scenarios dialed to an 11