- 10 May 2004 11:10
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Kolzene, you make an excellent point about the inherent instabilities of a globalized economy. The nature of globalization is inherently volatile, and when profit margins increase you decrease based on the sum economic wealth of entire nations, then the system is setting itself up for failure.
One aspect of technocracy that I admire is a reliance on internal industry rather than external, this of course makes it extremely stable in terms of the longevity of a system as a whole.
Also, the fact that the state is the people rather than a sort of external class that evolves seperate of the people, and corporate control would have inevitably given way to a sort of statist economy also leads me to believe that technocracy can easily be a winning system.
Granted, in the world prediction you give, kolzene, the system may be heavily opposed by some in this continent, and maybe other entire nation states. But because of the inherent high production capacity and efficiency associated with a technocracy, opposing nation states would see the benefit in not opposing such a nation with cheapened exports from the technate itself due to hyper efficient manufacturing. Likewise, opposing north americans would see the inherent benefits in a system that gives them their needs, and some of what they want, in return for a little of their time to give back to the system.
Now, not to strike a militaristic chord on the concept of technate... but those nations that feel the need to aggressively attack a technocratic nation can be easily pacified through a defensive war, again... due to the inherent benefits of a technocracy. Through superior production and engineering, one would not have to resort to the kind of bloody wars that have dominated the past. A technate could easily throw large amounts of munitions at an aggressive invading power with minimal manpower on it's own part. The invading country, if sane, would probably lose their taste for war quickly, and sue for peace after only a short while.
Once again, not to make a technocracy a militaristic idea, but the concept of aggressive action has to be taken into account just as readily as peace.