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  1. …in reply to @chrisbaraniuk
    @chrisbaraniuk right, of course. but I think there is a valid point that in that kind of extreme situation, people are more likely to form a group focused on helping each other than on division. LotF is an allegory for society as a whole, but that situation is not the same as normal society.
    1. …in reply to @v21
      @chrisbaraniuk I am reminded, as I have been a lot recently, of Solnit's A Paradise Built In Hell, about the tendency of people to rush to help in catastrophic situations (and the tendency of elites to try to maintain control, often with awful consequences)