Thread:Bugthe/@comment-26247132-20160531050025/@comment-28398720-20160601191844

They aren't as "advanced" as they used to be, period. Everything else is just your emotional baggage. I tried to say that they follow a 'primitive age lifestyle' you decided it means primitives! I suggested that we say lack 'advanced technology', you decided that makes them neanderthals! Calm down.

So I am asking again, how would you describe all the differences between the societies of the two descendants of USA 2050, in non "subjective judgments".

Note that the Ark was mostly comprised of educated people, and its society remained pretty much intact, retaining its institutions, education and benefits\comforts of technology. While the survivors on the ground were a mishmash of ~"doomprepares", who lost access to information\institutions\technology\medicine and basically everything the took for granted, and had to fighting for daily survival. And as a result they became illiterate, their language changed, they lost touch with history and things taught in higher education institutes. They are mostly a warrior hunter gather society. Whose capabilities\knowledge is FAR subtracted of their former self.

Also Dark Ages is a common use example to describe the fall of civilization in Europe and loss information. Its fits the naming theme we had on the 100, and tech level on the ground (at least weapon wise)