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@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.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@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)Look on archive.org