{"id":6325,"date":"2020-07-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2020-06-30T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T21:58:08","slug":"devolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/devolution\/","title":{"rendered":"DEVOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cDevolution:\nA Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre\u201d is the latest novel from\nMax Brooks, who gave us the NY Times <\/em>#1\nbestseller \u201cWorld War Z.\u201d  The latter was\na remarkably well-researched picture of how societal breakdown would probably\nactually take place in something like a zombie apocalypse, and Brooks has taken\nthe same approach with a different mythical monster: Sasquatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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            The story is set near Mount Rainier,\na volcano that has not erupted since the 19th<\/sup> Century, but does so\nin the novel.  At the center of the tale\nis the appropriately named Greenloop, an idealized community of well-off\nProgressives located far from civilization. \nThe newest high tech computers and devices abound. The politics are\nGreen, the eating habits are Green, and you can just about imagine a life-size\nposter of AOC on a wall somewhere in every perfect home. The residents\npresumably use their Teslas to drive a long distance to shop at Whole Foods and\nTrader Vic\u2019s, because Greenloop is not a Backwoods\nHome <\/em>shade of green: there is no evidence of crops, livestock, or other\nself-reliant food production there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            And, of course, there are no\nfirearms in Greenloop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            But then Mount Rainier \u2013 nearly\ntwice the size of Mount St. Helens, and you remember that <\/em>— erupts violently. Greenloop escapes damage, but the\nsurrounding roads are wiped out by lahars,\n<\/em>volcanic mudflows. Cell towers are down and communications are completely cut\noff.  There is no more food to be\nhad.  Wildlife flees the fire and\nlava\u2026and so does a family of Yetis.  Who\nmake their way to Greenloop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            And are very hungry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            These Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) are very\nsmelly, very large, very strong, very mean and very well coordinated in\nstrategic pack hunting. One by one, they kill and eat the humans.  It is sad as the Greenloop residents discover\nthat paring knives don\u2019t work well to fend off large hairy monsters, and arrows\naren\u2019t much better. They learn that their decorative bamboo can be fashioned\ninto spears, and that it\u2019s hard to fight on 500 calories a day as their food\nsupply dwindles. In the end, there are only two survivors \u2013 a once-starry-eyed\nyoung woman who has learned to face reality the hard way, and an orphan child for\nwhom she has become the guardian.  As the\nbook closes, they have set off into the woods with jerky they\u2019ve made from the\nflesh of slain Yetis. Whether their goal is to kill more sasquatches or find\ncivilization is unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Personally, I see it as a validation\nof the gun owner\u2019s life style. With the right hardware, the battle would have\nlasted about one medium-long chapter, and the hunger problem would have been\nsolved with hundreds of pounds of protein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDevolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre\u201d is the latest novel from Max Brooks, who gave us the NY Times #1 bestseller \u201cWorld War Z.\u201d  The latter was a remarkably well-researched picture of how societal breakdown would probably actually take place in something like a zombie apocalypse, and Brooks has taken the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions\/6327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}