One circumstance can serve as consolation for a significant part of the survivors: The problems they will face will at least be different from those that seemed to them a real torment in the past. The problems of a highly civilized society will be replaced by the problems inherent in primitive civilizations. Most likely, the majority of survivors will be a society consisting of people who were, to a certain extent, prepared in advance for a rapid transition from a complex and fairly sophisticated way of life to a primitive type of existence. Roberto Vacca. “The coming of the dark era.”