Vylar Kaftan Civilization

Civilization by Vylar Kaftan is about how choosing different paths often lead to the same ending. This short story has a series of sections, which the reader will go to after choosing how their civilization will be. The author gives the illusion of choice; however, choices will not matter, as in the end a new civilization will start regardless of choices. The passage explained describes how society ends up after the assassination of their leader and their civilization lost the war.

The society in this story can be either dystopian or utopian. These two are direct opposites. John Munkner from the University of Georgetown reported that utopian societies are usually ideal and their individuals are leading ideal lives. Dystopia, however, is
No matter the civilization, whether it is utopian or dystopian, the decisions made by the people lead to destruction. Interestingly, the author implies the absence of fast foods, sports and a combination of the two things above. In the first section of this short story, the author mentions that fast foods and sports are the only things needed. The next paragraph mentions a mushroom cloud, – perhaps an atomic bomb – deaths because of plague, – which is toxic and makes skin explode – and radiation – that could possibly fry 98% of the population’s brains. All the scenarios presented above are results of war between civilizations. Next, she describes what could happen to the people living there. This includes being vaporized by rain, the piling up of dead bodies and the simile of comparing them to ants, survivors that walk among them. Here she notes that those left alive steal food from the corpses but not their money, because “who needs money anymore?”. After exposing the reasons of the apocalypse and what happens to those living there, Kaftan moves on to what the remaining society will face next. Here she proposes a nuclear winter, a biological disaster or depression. Then she states that those who survived can start over, ending this