>>712544168>So how many people here just fetishize the end of society?It is exclusively American thing. You can ask a person in any other developed nation about how he feels if the society would collapse, and he will tell you to fuck off, but an American will get aroused instead and starts telling you about how he will start shooting negroes with guns and living off the land after "feds" would be gone. It's a good question why are they like this. I think there are two main causes.
>Foundational mythAmerican myth is all about conquering the lawless frontier, taking as much land as you can personally hold, being a badass cowboy gunslinger and other Wild West things. But then an American raised on this myth looks outside, and sees a well-established developed country with colossal cities and highly complex legal and financial systems, where he needs to obey laws, fit into society and build wealth by working hard. This creates a drastic dissonance with the said national myth. American wants to find his Wild West, even if this means the country he lives in having to blow up.
>ReligionOne of the main founding demographics of US were fringe fundamentalist Christian sects, and Christianity was always stronger in America than in Europe. And Christianity has a cult of apocalypse, which preaches that the current sinful world will be destroyed, and God will replace it with new, perfect post-apocalyptic world.
Multiply those two on each other, and you get what you get.
I remember some people asking, how the world of Fallout still looks like decivilized wasteland 2+ centuries after the nuclear war (while at the same time being a setting with an optimistic, cheerful tone). That's how. Fallout is an ultimate embodiment of the actual American dream, the timeless American Valhalla.