Intergalactic Summit

This post is meant for capsuleers and baseliners alike, and many baseliners will likely find it more useful then those in the capsuleer class, whose liberty and freedom are for now ensured by the technological supremacy we represent.

Every generation needs a revolution. Experience has shown repeatedly and without fail that even under the best forms of government, those entrusted with power will slide further and further into tyranny over time without fail. No society, no culture, and no governments are immune from this power creep. Little by little, fascism and tyranny will leak into every form of government and every system of economics, and if you are not willing to put your foot down and say 'no I will not tolerate this' then the activity will continue. We can see it happening right now, in news from all corners of the cluster. Sectarian violence, old prejudices flaring up, instability, the treating of entire ethnic groups like lesser beings, there's lots of tyranny out there right now. Its easy to give in, and let things your government does slide, because in many cases acting out brings about retribution from those in power. All it takes for the forces of tyranny and decay to succeed is for people to not think its worth their time to get involved. This hurts everyone in the long turn as a government becomes increasingly draconian. You might not be effected now, but eventually everything comes around.

In order to be afforded any semblance of actual rights, you have to be ready to defend those rights, and fight to preserve the vitality of your liberty and your freedom from harm both foreign and domestic. Not with force of arms, though that is sometimes required, but by being able to change your mind and discard ideas that may not work as well as you're told they do. As capsuleers, it would be very difficult to take this freedom and liberty from us, as it makes us Unbound what we are. We have been let out of the box and we are not going back inside. We are to at least a certain degree a well informed and very well armed populace. Control won't be taken from us anytime soon. But for the average person out there, the best way to ensure your freedom is to take matters into your own hands as we do instead of entrusting it to someone else. Capsuleers have freedom because we have the power and arms required to ensure this freedom. If you as an individual are not willing to do the same as us and step up to defend yourself and your rights, sooner or later someone will come along in a position of power that puts their best interests ahead of yours.

Governments are meant to serve the people by sheltering them from chaos or anarchy, and while I think we can all agree that feuding warlords are not the ideal state of society, neither too is the slow but steady erosion of what it means to be a human being, as those in power decide what's best for everyone. As long as people serve their governments, instead of governments serving their people the problem will worsen. Governments are comprised of people, and can only exist as long as the people decide to let it. If a government has failed in the duties entrusted to it, then it is the responsibility of the population to replace that government with one that serves their interests.

A bit of chaos is good, out of it come new ideas, new inventions, and new ways of doing things. In order to ensure the existence of a society where you are respected, you need to be ready and willing to step up and defend your rights and freedoms, not by overthrowing anything else except for what you've been holding in your head, that may not be applicable anymore.

Humanity will not solve the problems it has with the same thinking we used to create them. We are a clever, adaptable, and creative species, but in order to make use of the talents we have, we must be willing to set aside what we think we know, and what we take for granted and try something new. One must be willing to let go of those things that are holding them back if they wish to move forward. Change will happen, and any society that fails to adapt to their changing world will not survive in the long run. This is true of evolutionary biology and it is true of culture.

I don't know where we will go from here, or what future direction our species or our society will take, or how to solve the problems that now face us. But, in order to have any understanding of the future we have to be able to set aside our preconceived notions, throw out everything we take for granted, and try something in a new way.

We've gotten very lazy, and we're many generations overdue for revolution in our thinking. I'm not talking about blood and violence, although I'm afraid that's already happening. I'm talking about a revolution that's probably the hardest kind. The kind that takes place in the human mind. To be able to tear everything down, throw everything out, and start with a completely fresh paper and say... okay, how do we solve this problem?

Are you going to continue to talk in this generic fashion, or are you going to get around in attempting to make relevant what you've said to New Eden? Various Gallentean approaches to revolution? The Caldari attitude? Amarr Scriptural interpretations? Minmatar thoughts? Case studies and examples of revolution in cluster history? Differences from revolts or rebellions in those latter instances?

I found Ms Riordan's ideas on revolution thought provoking, myself.


I'm not sure if you're aware of the news, Inhonores, but I'd suggest that current affairs around New Eden make this entirely relevant to New Eden.


I believe the post in its current form, purposefully (I assume) without specifics and without examples given, allows the theory of challenging the status quo through revolution to be discussed as a concept, without the conversation descending into the usual quagmire of arguement and counter argument, inevitably focusing too heavily on the politics and conflicts of one faction or group and their opponants.

Reading this brings to mind a concept of an alliance of nations and empires to ally against a common threat. Sansha Kuvakei.

Intriguing that the next time that this was called for it was met with such disdain that it could not come to fruition, and thus his occasional incursions persist...

Curious... If we cannot set aside our differences to ally, once more, against a common threat; are we doomed to fail if yet another arrives? If this sudden surge of planetary clones decides to turn the tides en masse, turning entire nations over simply by disallowing the usage of their planetary resources, could we abandon our petty violence in order to stim the bleeding of an incessant gash?

I don't believe so.

Perhaps in the small scale, some alliance of rebels from each nation who bear their better ideals in mind and colliding on the common themes... Gallentean culture and liberty, Amarrian faith and piety; while trivial to dream of that concept it's not so far out of reach... There are many in this galaxy, this space... and the human genome is not something so easily quelled.

That is some lazy, backwards logic.

Can't decide whether you'd make a horrible marketer, given that your statement demonstrates that you have no understanding of the concept, or a great marketer, given that you're trying to sell me **** and convince me it's fullerite.

Oh for the love of pete, Seriphyn, the Gallente did not invent futurism.