# Patriots  ## Metadata - Author: [[James Rawles]] - Full Title: Patriots - Category: #books ## Highlights - Drake R8-A shortwave receiver that Mary had mail-ordered from Ham Radio Outlet the previous year. ([Location 301](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003ODHO8G&location=301)) - When times got tough, most realized that a single family on a remote farm would be no match for a band of looters. It was a natural and logical reaction to cluster into small defensive groups. ([Location 377](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003ODHO8G&location=377)) - But given the complexity of society, and the interdependence of systems on other systems, it probably could. In fact, all it might take would be economic trouble of the same magnitude as the Great Depression of the 1930s to set something like that off. That could be all it would take, and the whole house of cards would collapse. Our economy, our transportation system, communications systems—everything, really—is so much more complex and vulnerable than back in the 1930s.And our society is not nearly so well-behaved.” ([Location 567](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003ODHO8G&location=567)) - The French, he said,“could screw up a two-car funeral procession.” ([Location 975](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003ODHO8G&location=975))