A thread of 2 messages, 27 June 1991 to 1 July 1991, in the order they were sent.
Everyone knows what a charismatic dictator is. Likewise with a religious dictatorship. What `Balcanized' means is unfortunately self-explanatory. But what is a feudal technocracy? Is there or has there ever been such a creature on Terra? Does anyone know a book which describes one? How does it work? What are the distinguishing characteristics of it? - - -bertil- - - -- "Some people almost never think. They just reshuffle their prejudices."
[email removed] writes: > > Everyone knows what a charismatic dictator is. Likewise with a religious > dictatorship. What `Balcanized' means is unfortunately self-explanatory. > But what is a feudal technocracy? As I understand it, it's where the community is dependant on something, e.g. vacc suits on an airless world, water on a desert world, cars on a world where the population is small and scattered. The ruling elite are the ones who control the key commodity. Imagine Dune with the Fremen taking complete control of the universe, due to their monopoly of melange. - - -- "Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott Adrian Hurt | JANET: [email removed] UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: [email removed]