Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.193.170.188-20170224122257/@comment-11565898-20170224131942

These are just my assumptions here, but...

With each generation, the younger one loses something that the elder one did. So, even though the grounders are descendents of survivalists, they could've lost things like language and societal norms that went along with elder generations.

For instance, in Rome, the language is Italian now, but at one time it was strictly Latin. The Roman Catholic Church is also prominient now opposed to what was once a polydiety society.

So, to me anways, it makes sense that the new grounders are not the same as the old grounders. Things change as people cope with new circumstances.

As far as the guns go, I think once the bullets of the guns the first generation of grounders had wore out, they simply decided they didn't need the tech anymore. I mean, what would be the point anyway? So they went back to their primal instincts and decided not to scavenge or waste time on finding more guns when they could get the food themselves. They were just adapting to their new enviroment the best way they knew how.

Finally, I'm not sure how the buildings would've survived. Most buildings wear out overtime due to natural causes anyway. That conbination of nature and radiation could've destroyed the buildings faster or something.