The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.
All authors are inspired by something someone wrote before them. The first rule for a great novelist is to copy.
You've seen one post-apocalyptic city, you've seen them all.
Basically what we do in life I is reduced to subconscious routines.
This kinda shit happens every day. I used to complain that every day felt the same and then May 9th came, and now every day IS the same. Ugh, same wake-up scream, same machete-wielding asshole, same everything, with slight variations. One thing that never changes... is I die every single day. I die.
You follow in the tradition that you're handed.