Hmmm......"Alas Babylon" was the title to a novel about conditions after a nuclear war.

I like Martin Heidegger’s take on this in his work “What is Thinking?” In this work he rather unfairly hangs the advent of the scientific method and materialism on Parmenides who is recorded as having said turn away from that which you see and focus instead on that which you can. Heidegger does a great job of showing the connection between our place in the environment and in linguistic structure. He connects this to the development of our allegiance to those things common static and measurable. He tries to do this without the perspective of judgment. Saying simply that this is a path we took. But the liabilities and lack of balance in this path seem glaring It cannot be denied that what is to be human is not so easily rendered common static and measurable. Neither is our connection in the world.