Actually, that's just one example of an Outside Context Problem. An OCP is a problem that one literally has no context for, no capability of planning for.
- A dinosaur-killer meteor (or somewhat smaller) slamming into Earth would be another example of something the Party has no context for.
- Or, the inevitable Milankovitch cycles ticking along and initiating a new glaciation very rapidly (or even something like the Younger Dryas).
- A nasty pandemic, like the Black Death, or smallpox + measles in the New World, that kills off too much of society for it to support itself, let alone the Party.
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- A dinosaur-killer meteor (or somewhat smaller) slamming into Earth would be another example of something the Party has no context for.
- Or, the inevitable Milankovitch cycles ticking along and initiating a new glaciation very rapidly (or even something like the Younger Dryas).
- A nasty pandemic, like the Black Death, or smallpox + measles in the New World, that kills off too much of society for it to support itself, let alone the Party.