It's already happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuiWJomwmWo
Anthony's ok. He's the only one with sufficient technological knowledge to be offered credibility by default. I don't care what he looks like, although for his sake I do wish he'd start controlling his appetite.
Turn to God. There have been innumerable times in history where a people felt all was lost forever, but the ending to the human story is already written and it is a good one. Focus on building your own virtue. You can best influence the world by shining as a positive example.
Thank God for living in an era where moral error is so obvious. If the old world wasn't up to snuff, thank God that it is perishing.
A bunch of capital will be put into jobs for camera men, light technicians, makeup people, etc. The movie will flop. Market evolution, work for the working class, appropriate redistribution of wealth and the vacuum of appealing entertainment for new competitors to arise. It's all good, in the grand scheme of things. God be praised, let it perish.
If the society is sufficiently corrupt, like in 1984, it would be as the book says. Those women wouldn't survive otherwise.