Listen to them. Listen to them carefully. Hear them talk of how the Y2K bug will bring people together, how survival in the powerless nights and hungry days will restore a lost sense of community. They want this. They want a world where what they perceive as 'lost values' will be restored.
Technology is liberating.
It frees us not only from our dependance on nature, but our dependance on other people. Technology, and our mobile, dispersed culture took that power from them. They want it back. Sorry, fellow libertarians. False, because if society collapses it won't be reborn in freedom and liberty, but in slavery and tyranny, and we'll have to fight the long fight all over again.