Has anyone ever once thought about what life would be like if it was to start all over again? Perhaps there are only a few people left in the world. Let's say...eight. Four men and women. Would it be much different from the way life is today?

Wells I wanted to point out Vonnegut's point of view: "I sometimes speculate as to what humanity might have become if the first settlers on Santa Rosalia had been the original passenger list and crew for "the Nature Cruise of the Century" - Captain von Kleist, surely, and Hisako Hiroguchi and Selena MacIontosh and Mary Hepburn, and, instead of the Kankabono girls, the sailors and officers and Jacqueline Onasis and Dr. Henry Kissinger and Rudolf Nureyev and Mick Jagger....The island could have supported that many individuals- just barely. There would have been some struggles, some fights, I guess - some killings, even, if food or water ran short. And I suppose some of them would have imagined that Nature or something was very pleased if they emerged victorious. But their survival wouldn't have amounted to a hill of beans, as far as evolution was concerned, if they didn't reproduce....Humanity would still be pretty much what is is today." [182-183]

Basically all in all, if eight people were stuck on an island together, it'd be like a series of the Lost show. And in the end, life will still be the same as it always has been. I guess it's because each of the people know what life is like now. When the world "ends" and starts over, they carry those ideas with them. So money becomes important again and it just all gets cycled back. That's really sad to think that if we tried to make the world a better place, we'd pretty much go back to how the world already was like. :[