Thank you for loling at my joke! :) And I do totally get that it's hard to write exactly how society might collapse and what institutions might hang on for a bit. I wish your mom would be able to take stuff with a grain of salt and not get so worked up....man, YouTube is often not a good thing. :(

You said it! Advice books and stories can just be satisfying. Maybe I love them because they just help life make sense a bit.