SESSION VI 315 that's going to occupythe attention of the people as they come out or their shelters, isn't it? WOLFE: Yes, I think they have to eat and sleep. TAYLOR: It seems to me one difficulty with this discussion is that it's a little bit like asking what happens in either of two cases. Case number one: a person is shipwrecked and winds up ona desert island with nothing on the island, You're asked what does he do? He dies. Case number two: a person who is shipwrecked lands on the same island with a survival kit and something out of which he can make distilled sea water and some seeds, etc., and he sets about the. business of trying to survive in an organized way. HEMLER: Then maybe he docs. TAYLOR: Maybe so. But I think it's important to separate the with no plan of any kind. gether. He's put into a disorganized context alto- two questions. One is someonewho suddenly emerges in a situation FREMONT-SMITH: People are going to have a great variety. Some people are going to come out and find nothing. TAYLOR: I'm asking, [ guess, what are we thinking about? we thinking about the U.S. today, right now? Are Or are we thinking about what it might be for the U.S. at some later time? You say he comes out of his shelter, The chances are he doesn't come out of the shelter because he doesn't have one. WOLFE: AYRES: That's true. If it's a surprise attack today he's not ina shelter. TAYLOR: All right. FREMONT-SMITH: going to start off with. So I think it's important to distinguish. We have to decide what assumptions we are : TAYLOR: Is it a prepared situation or is it a non-prepared situation, because they are vastly difierent, almost like night an day. . FREMONT-SMITH: Even ina prepared situation there will be an enormous varicty of experiences to be faced when people come out,