Maybe the paradigm of apocalypse resulting in dystopia is an explicit recognition that we are indeed living in a dystopia now, and that the rot at the core of our culture is so deep that even apocalypse won't get at it. Do the Indigenous peoples of the world - who could tell us a thing or two about what it's like to live post-apocalypse if we cared to ask - tell stories about bellum omnium contra omnes? I rather think their stories are about how for more than half a millennium now they have managed to hang on to the connections to earth and each other that are at the core of their cultures.