Rebulding a world by paranoiacs
For gaming purposes I started wondering about a following idea:
Let's think about contemporary people who foresee some incoming doom. UFO attack, swapping of earth magnetic pools, asteroid impact, imminent thermonuclear war, whatever. Rationally judging - a case for a psychiatrist, although the problem is that a group is in thousand what makes that more a sociological phenomena. Then there is a twist - they are right ("right" can also mean that they were talking about absolutely different cataclysm, though they turned out accidentally prepared for the actual one).
Now they are among few survivors and effectively have to start rebuild a world and found their own government.
How would look like their power structure and culture?
After all you have practically only those who don't trust government. Would they trust their own? Would it quickly fail their expectations so they would try to overthrow it on regular basis?
How would ideological conflict be solved? I mean there is a long way to reconcile a religious fundamentalist and hard line atheistic fan of Zeitgeist...
Would the level of paranoia decrease following usual regression toward the mean, or actually next generations through both genetics and upbringing in society where it is the norm be also terribly suspicious and effectively create such a culture?
Let's think about contemporary people who foresee some incoming doom. UFO attack, swapping of earth magnetic pools, asteroid impact, imminent thermonuclear war, whatever. Rationally judging - a case for a psychiatrist, although the problem is that a group is in thousand what makes that more a sociological phenomena. Then there is a twist - they are right ("right" can also mean that they were talking about absolutely different cataclysm, though they turned out accidentally prepared for the actual one).
Now they are among few survivors and effectively have to start rebuild a world and found their own government.
How would look like their power structure and culture?
After all you have practically only those who don't trust government. Would they trust their own? Would it quickly fail their expectations so they would try to overthrow it on regular basis?
How would ideological conflict be solved? I mean there is a long way to reconcile a religious fundamentalist and hard line atheistic fan of Zeitgeist...
Would the level of paranoia decrease following usual regression toward the mean, or actually next generations through both genetics and upbringing in society where it is the norm be also terribly suspicious and effectively create such a culture?