That is an age-old lament that has been circulating for generations. My own father used to go around muttering what us "young-uns" would do without pocket calculators, transistor radios and all that other stuff he didn't grow up with when he was a kid. I can imagine a conversation between father and son going something like this back in 1892...
"Why back in my day son, we didn't have all these fancy things like e-lectric lights and telegraphs. No-sir-ee, why back in my day, we used to hafta navigate around at night with torches and if we had to get a message to somebody, why we had to jump on our horse and deliver the message ourselves!"
There has always been a notion with us older folk that the younger generation would simply curl up in a fetal position and die if the "modern conveniences" of life were ever taken away from them.
I think as we get older and our own physical capabilities start to deteriorate, we like to think ourselves as hardier and tougher than the generation that is replacing us.
The reality is however, that human beings are most adaptable and should our modern world crumble before us for whatever reason and our electrical infrastructure is gone, our young people will quickly adapt to it (and much faster than us older folk) even if they can't Google how to plant a corn field or gut a fish.
Sure, there will be some major disruption and a lot of weaker people will die off...that would happen in any civilization during any era, but the notion that young people would be powerless to help themselves is simply a romantic notion that older people tend to have.
BTW, the "weaker people" that I speak of in the previous paragraph? That would typically be people over the age of 55.
Yes, you’re right... If anything I might be a guidance counselor...to my son... heh.
Yes, all true, but I doubt that any of you see what is coming...
It’s the knowledge that has not been passed down through the education system that is the missing link... Mainly survival skills. So many today would have no idea how to survive without electricity, food and water...