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Old 11-23-2011, 12:13 AM   #200
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Default Re: 'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)

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Originally Posted by jason taylor View Post
In point of fact, unlike you, I don't consider the TC Jacobinical. I do consider it rather like the US or more likely a combo of the US and the EU. However I picture it as a Greek Tragedy. It grows more and more oligarchial as the war goes on.
Oh, I don't think it was 'Jacobinical' for the whole two centuries! Jacobins never stay in power that long.

The global elite ran the TC for nearly two centuries, but of course factions came and went. The fear of the Vilani, and the ways that fear could be leveraged into political power of financial gain for people in positions of power, were recurrent factors in the history of the TC.

As for the US and the EU, keep in mind that there was no Security Council in the TC. There's really nothing to guarantee that a bunch of white liberal secularists are calling the shots. This is something I think many leftists here and in Euro-Disneyland forget when they call for greater 'global democracy.'

Fun times. :)
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