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Elven Poltics
Granting the assumptions that the elves we're talking about have longevity that effectively Unaging once they finish their 100 year adolescence, and due to their magic they economically live in effectively post scarcity prestige economy.
I was consider ennui be a one of the intractable issues that divide their politics which the major divisions would mastering a skill vers dabbling in many. What do you see the political system evolving out of this situation? |
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11-08-2018, 10:21 AM | #3 |
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You've mentioned a potential difference between specialists and generalists. This has a lot of cultural value.
You haven't mentioned the government type, and that will effect these things a lot.
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11-08-2018, 10:54 AM | #8 |
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It really depends on too many factors. But in general, any government of immortal elves will be as unchanging as they are. If we assume a generally good chance of continued life — that is, no constant wars to roil the population — then you would either have the government be static, or you would have constantly rotating positions. In the former case, if there's a king then the king will always be the king, etc., so there's no Game of Thrones-style court intrigue. Elves' ambitions would not tend toward the acquisition of limited resources like political power, because there's only so much of it to go around and those who have it can be expected to keep it forever.
If there are no fixed political positions, then I'd expect a very democratic, egalitarian society. No one expects to keep their position for very long, because there's no such thing as "very long" to immortal elves. And if you can't expect to keep political power for much time, it's not much of a draw to you to abuse it. So elves would just consider it a civic duty and do it. And everyone would do it, because eventually every elf will have had opportunities to serve. So it depends greatly on what kind of society you're dealing with. A more interesting exercise might be to posit a society of elves, and then figure out what immortality would mean to that society. |
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11-08-2018, 11:25 AM | #10 |
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I would see almost regardless of how it works, the head of the state is chosen, the Elves would be mostly be fine with humans translation the title as King, as most humans will not know more than one head of state in their lifetime and most of the time it not worth explaining the difference. Or maybe I'm wrong there maybe the limits of their power might be worth them not be mistaken for king. Internally hance speaking in elven they would definitely care though
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