Intergalactic Summit

Presumably, you wanted opinion from Republicans. I do not qualify as one.



Enchanting, certainly. And bedazzling, bewitching, beguiling, conceited -all those things. Stupid? No. Neither are you. Let's not have that 'date'.

Shakor and his Jovian puppet-masters don't care about the Minmatar people. The self-styled Elders don't care about the Minmatar people.

The Minmatar people deserve to be governed by people who will nurture them. By people who will elevate them culturally. By people who will enlighten them.

They will never get those things from the Shakorites, but they will get them from the Empire.

Your response Mr Blake has left me speechless by your ignorance..not that you care(which is the least of my concerns) but my God...........My God how much have we strayed as a society?

Truer words could not have been spoken, Admiral Blake.

Corruption and the status quo of repugnant ambivalence.



For sure some will try to flay you, here. However, some clans of the six kin relegated spirituality (with all that entails) to an abstract, obsolete, companion of daily life a decade or so ago. They are of course a minority still. Indeed, some of the younger Matar generation regionally based inside parts of The Republic are already refusing their voluval. I won't tell you where but I feel no antipathy against these youngsters -perhaps it's a fad, who knows. Perhaps it is not. In any event, they're the new breed - our future if you like, so if not a fad, then it'd be rather a shock for some who look to the past for guidance. Maybe it'll catch on, maybe it will not. It'll certainly bear keeping a close eye upon.



Could you expand on your timocracy a little? I am not sure I understand your context, here.

Sorry to dredge this up, but I don't want to leave you hanging. I've been occupied lately, and received an earful from the family after my last little outburst in this thread. Whoever showed my great-aunts how to use the fluid-comm network has a lot to answer for.

At the risk of touching off a philosophical or political debate, I'll try my best to answer your question. We've waded into the deep-end of my intellectual pool, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

A timocracy, according to certain definitions, is a form of government where love of honor is the guiding principle. For comparison, we might say that love of wealth is the guiding principle in a plutocracy, or love of ability the guiding principle in a meritocracy.

Timocracies are born out of resentment for the ruling class. People start to believe that their rulers care more about cultivating certain virtues than bringing order to society and projecting state power. In our case, we might say that Midular cared too much about promoting peace and "normalizing" the Republic's foreign relations than she did about helping the Republic's poor or fighting to free our enslaved brethren. How does one throw off the corruption of the former regime? By solving civil disputes and displaying the state's power-- rein in autonomous interests and make war.

This perception that the former regime was corrupt can also make timocrats contemptuous of money and money-making activities. Peace and friendly relations with external powers was a boon for the Republic's economy. It's true that many of our poor saw little of this wealth, but conditions were improving. I'd rather not get into a "show us the proof" argument over this; in my opinion the economy was doing better before the war started, and the Republic's poor continue to live in desperate conditions, so I'm not sure further discussion of this issue will go anywhere.

My concerns with timocracy are twofold: first, there's economic angle. I believe that economic development is the only way to ensure that our people remain free, and is the surest path towards freeing our enslaved brethren. Eschewing this in favor of "coming for our people" is, at best, short-sighted. I'm not saying that capsuleers shouldn't be free to make war on the Amarr, but government involvement is unnecessary. Look at the recent idiocy with loyalty point rewards.

At the risk of sounding paranoid, I am also concerned that tribal autonomy will be arrogated to the Sanmatar and his new government. There's no tribal council, Parliament has been dissolved, and one man currently holds most of the cards. With the war going on, which tribal leader is stupid enough to order their factories to start making butter again, instead of guns? How long until the announcement that convening the tribal council has been put on hold until the conclusion of this war? Seeing as we've yet to identify any goals or victory conditions, when do you think this war will end? I'm not sure it ever will.