# Postapocalyptic dynasties

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 17, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postapocalyptic-dynasties/663765 "2013-07-17T16:15:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postapocalyptic-dynasties/663765/21 "2013-07-19T22:35:56Z")

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Or one of the A&M schools (like Texas A&M).

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postapocalyptic-dynasties/663765/22 "2013-07-19T23:25:34Z")

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> [@KarlGrenze](#):
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> It may be set in the west, but MIT is definitely on the east coast (and apparently they derived the Mitties).

True. Hmm.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postapocalyptic-dynasties/663765/23 "2013-07-20T15:17:17Z")

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Berkeley isn’t exactly right next door either. I see no reason why the technocrats, esp., wouldn’t have been able to relocate during the period before and during the collapse of civilization.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postapocalyptic-dynasties/663765/24 "2013-07-21T11:57:23Z")

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From page 298:

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> [Berkli:] “Why do we do a lot of things? Why did our forefathers come here in the first place?”
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> [Mitty:] “Why – they came because civilization around them was being wiped out by drugs and disease and monsters. They were faced with retreating into savagery or finding somewhere where knowledge and technical skills could be preserved. They’d heard there was power remaining here, cities remaining here. And there were, of course. Are. And we’re sitting on the only fusion power source in the world, one that’s automatic and eternal, so far as we know.”

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postapocalyptic-dynasties/663765/25 "2016-05-17T22:41:10Z")

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Rereading this _again_ to prep for reading the third book in the series, which I just picked up. Had the exact same question about the Elelles and the Anders.

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