That's magical thinking. That's not people who are invested in a real plan with infrastructure and logistics - that's an apocalypse cult promising a glorious redemption.
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That's the thing, the prospect of a light at the end of the tunnel is what drives all the other civilization-building stuff People are willing to do the shitty farming and patrolling and building and other labor if they can imagine a better world at the end of it
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When they really truly come to believe this is impossible, that's when you get the Lord of the Flies shit Like the response to the collapse of the Fireflies is for many of them to *become* selfish bandits, like the Wolves
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I never saw that at all in the original game. Marlene's letter even points out how her pathetic little band of stragglers are, as far as she knows, the only Fireflies left alive. We see plenty of *corpses* but they're effectively defunct as of the time of the first game.
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