After losing his bid for reelection, 14th U.S President Franklin Pierce famously observed, \u201cAfter the White House what is there to do but drink?\u201d<\/p>\n
And you would think that same fine logic would apply to the End of the World. After humanity has all been but wiped out, you’d think heavy drinking would naturally follow, and for many excellent reasons.<\/p>\n
There’s nothing better for relieving stress, after all, for easing you past traumatic events and blotting\u00a0out reality when its weight becomes too tremendous for your psyche to bear. When grappling with the knowledge that everyone you knew or loved is dead, or worse, undead<\/em>, what else would there be to do but drink?<\/p>\n But if recent dramas are to be believed, the post-apocalypse is a teetotaler\u2019s paradise. Revolution<\/a> reminded me of an \u201880s after-school special, back when MADD had every\u00a0producer in Hollywood under its heel.\u00a0The most popular of the bunch, The Walking Dead, rarely shows alcohol use, and when it does, it\u2019s almost always cast in a negative light. The main villain, The Governor, was the only character allowed to drink with any sort of dignity, and that was just a neat whiskey or two at the end of the day. Another scene was so ridiculously prohibitionist it makes me laugh just thinking about it: When it\u2019s discovered one of the gang is carrying a nipper bottle of cognac in his rucksack (for the quiet times, he explains), Daryl throws a school-yard hissy fit worthy of Carrie Nation.<\/p>\n