I kind of find it hard to see materialist to suit the middle collumn. After all, what does materialism have to do with direct democracy or despotic hegemony?
Guessing at how the government types available for selection are determined
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Maybe direct democracy requires the society being heavily linked to the internet/communication network (cannot imagine any other way for billions of interstellar beings to vote directly
) and that is linked to technocratic, materialist society?As for the global hegemony, can anybody explain me what does it mean and what human historical or fictional governments fit that enigmatic description?
The only idea I have about this one is some kind of soviet union...- 2
Maybe direct democracy requires the society being heavily linked to the internet/communication network (cannot imagine any other way for billions of interstellar beings to vote directly
As for the global hegemony, can anybody explain me what does it mean and what human historical or fictional governments fit that enigmatic description?
It could be a sort of environmental government, protecting it and all. trees are things to! or something to make it materialistic
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Maybe direct democracy requires the society being heavily linked to the internet/communication network (cannot imagine any other way for billions of interstellar beings to vote directly
As for the global hegemony, can anybody explain me what does it mean and what human historical or fictional governments fit that enigmatic description?
Soviet Union ruling the world is a good example, or if Nazi Germany became the ruler of the world. All Germans would be superior to any other citizenry, so German citizens would have authority over anybody not German. Despotic Hegemony is basically if an ultranationalistic country became ruler of the world. Or one planet or solar system became ruler of the Galaxy.
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My problem with Global Hegemony is, this explanation assumes this government form is 'inherently' xenophobic. Not sure what is the source of xeno_ethos_doesnt_influence_gov_choices info but it seems to be right as no government forms known seem to be 'determined' to be xenophobic or xenophilic.
There can be very xeno-tolerant despotic empires (Achamenid Persia, Imperial Rome, Mongol Empire) and pretty xenophobic democracies (South Africa pre 1994, old USA against non-westerners, IMO ancient democratic Athens qualify too as they had tons of slaves and considered barbarians as lesser people
)I believe that despotic hegemony is like an enlightened despotism, but instead of culture it focuses on ecology, protection of people and materialistic things.
I would just assume that the despotic hegemony have a monarch that control everything of value for a materalistic society in a similar fashion a a divine mandate does for a spiritualistic society or a military dictatorship does for a militaristic society.
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