Conclusion: History in the Postmodern
Wars, disaster, and destruction occur frequently throughout history and fiction alike. If there is one thing they all demonstrate it is that we take the benefits of community for granted. It is not until those benefits are lost and we are left contemplating both rebuilding society and the thought of the world-without-us, that we realise how much we benefit from the societies we live in. They are the culminations of years of adaptions and influences and are not easily replaced or rebuilt. As William the Conqueror proved, one man can change a culture in the blink of an eye, but the consequences may take hundreds of years to repair.