Dillon
The story's "By the Waters of Babylon" and Ayn Rand's Antthem both show the old days to were it was not like today but post-apoclyptic.

In By the Waters of Babylon a man sees how the city was when the gods were alive. And how they fight with not weapons but destruction like fire from the sky and poison mist.

In From Anthem it shows how they all knew each other and were like