Homeline moves "up"

fchase8 · 01-30-2016, 03:57 PM

Infinity would normally support democracies not just for humanitarian reasons, but because they're harder to be manipulated by a few backroom actors - i.e., Centrum.

Infinity vs. Centrum might not be U.S. vs. USSR, but in a cold war parallel, Infinity would likely back the U.S., Centrum the USSR (language problem nonwithstanding). It would be a lot easier for Centrum to infiltrate the Kremlin and pull strings there than have to deal with presidential elections.

The problem would be if there is an 'enlightened despotism' that Centrum backs - non-democratic, easy to infiltrate & influence, but doing good. That is kind of the case with Gernsback - U.S.A. is still segregated, Europe still holds empires, but they are doing a lot of techno-good (under the leadership of the even less democratic, and even more Centrum-like, World Science Council).

Or take today's world. Centrum would like the E.U. with its bureaucracy and democratic deficit, as opposed to the insurgent political parties in various nations.

01-30-2016, 03:57 PM	#34
fchase8 Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: New York, NY	Re: Homeline moves "up" Infinity would normally support democracies not just for humanitarian reasons, but because they're harder to be manipulated by a few backroom actors - i.e., Centrum. Infinity vs. Centrum might not be U.S. vs. USSR, but in a cold war parallel, Infinity would likely back the U.S., Centrum the USSR (language problem nonwithstanding). It would be a lot easier for Centrum to infiltrate the Kremlin and pull strings there than have to deal with presidential elections. The problem would be if there is an 'enlightened despotism' that Centrum backs - non-democratic, easy to infiltrate & influence, but doing good. That is kind of the case with Gernsback - U.S.A. is still segregated, Europe still holds empires, but they are doing a lot of techno-good (under the leadership of the even less democratic, and even more Centrum-like, World Science Council). Or take today's world. Centrum would like the E.U. with its bureaucracy and democratic deficit, as opposed to the insurgent political parties in various nations.