It should be explained beforehand that by Crisis, I mean of epic magnitude, as in apocalyptic or general societal collapse level of magnitude.
I was playing Metro 2033 for the first time the other day and loved the idea of russian nazis fighting "communists" in the metro. Both having forgotten the finer points of their ideal system, and both seeming to only remember the odd thing of the ideological history (e.g. the Nazis russian supremacism yet using german phrases, and communist soldiers talking about their want of wages etc) when it got me thinking. As hypocritical as it may sound being a libertarian, I could kinda understand why someone would turn down either path in such a situation. If you have seemingly little hope left in the world, and too much freedom from everyone could get you and your family killed, wouldnt you want to turn to something which promised you more than just survival, but hope? Something that offered security and stability?
In a non video game note, a lecturer at my university was telling me about something some of you may be aware of called black games. To put it basically, black games tend to be games designed to be thought provoking, descision based and horribly, horribly cruel to the player, the kind of game designed to make people feel miserable.
One hypothetical game he talked about was one where Britain has fallen to a nuclear war (like metro 2033) but is still habitable. In the game itself the player would take charge as the military commander responsible for leading the people of london to a more habitable area. The game itself forced people into situations where things like islamic seperatists and seiges kept occuring to the point where people created in game concentration camps to save their own people, only later having it pointed out to them what they had actually done.
So in short, do you beleive, or do you know if your own political beleifs would change in such a crisis? I would hope that I would still remain a libertarian, but tbh I couldnt honestly say.
