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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"It was 1906, but we screwed the timeline up.''
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In fact, according to this trope, it seems all societies degenerate into lawlessness with punks and other toughs roaming the streets ([[Waterworld|or waves; thank you Kevin Costner]]) and doing naughty things [[After the End]] of civilization.
This degeneracy is part and parcel of '''The Apunkalypse'''. Effectively, this trope says that one of two things happens:
# the rise of lawless punks leads to the downfall of civilized society (a social apocalypse wherein maintenance of lawful order is overwhelmed by lawlessness)
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* The premise of the [[David Bowie]] [[Concept Album]] ''Diamond Dogs'' (which emerged from an aborted stage musical version of ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]''): After an unknown catastrophe, the remnants of humanity in "Hunger City" form decadent, scavenging tribes.
* ''[[Danger Days: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys]]'' is something like this—BLI/nd, their employees, and the drugged-out masses live in shining, sterile Battery City (a rebuilt post-apocalyptic Los Angeles), and the punked-out rebel Killjoys live in the dusty, derelict, but more colorful and alive Zones.
* The video for [[Tupac Shakur]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20131027144952/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWOsbGP5Ox4 "California Love"].
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