Chapter 50 - The Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
Added 2024-05-15 12:00:05 +0000 UTCHobbes is who we often think about when we imagine a post apocalyptic world.
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“Before it was probably all so clear. This world was over and there was little hope for anything to get better. Your final promise to your wife, which you had honored as you walked these tomb-like halls by yourself, had run its course. You could be proud of that fact, knowing that everyone was already infected, that there was no hope for a cure as all the vestiges of the old world failed and fell apart, science and logic to be replaced with savagery and barbarism,” I explained. “You’re a very smart man, Dr. Jenner, well read, practical and pragmatic, you know what life will be like outside these walls now. You haven’t directly experienced the horrors outside, but even without seeing them or experiencing them yourself, I’m sure you know what’s out there right now and what you could expect to experience. The worse impulses of mankind running amok, hell on Earth. In the words of Thomas Hobbes, life in this new world would be ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.’ And let’s face it, you’re not exactly built for this new world.”
