In 'The Road', Cormac McCarthy gives hints to things that are no more but in our everyday lives, some might feel they couldn't live without. In an interview he says, "...be more appreciative. Life is pretty damn good, even when it looks bad, and we should appreciate it more. We should be grateful. I don't know who to be grateful to, but you should be thankful for what you have.”
When the Man and the Boy stop at the bomb shelter, we see a glimpse of our own world, hygienics, toys, food (at the amount we are accustomed to) and safety. All these things are priceless in The Road but we too often take them for granted. When asked, people will often cite technology or money as the most important resource in the world, but if the world collapsed, they would both become useless, remnants of the past.
Food is so scarce that people have turned against their innermost morals and eaten their fellow humans but today, we have the opposite problem, people overstuff themselves and have become gluttons. We aren't thankful to have enough to live.
We also need to be thankful for the safety we have, the government will probably crumble and with it, polices, armies and paramedics. People will be forced to fend for themselves on a much greater scale than we do now. Normal ailments may turn deadly, chaos and famine will consume the Earth.
It's good to be thankful, it shows that we understand just how good we have it.
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