04-28-2018, 07:05 AM
(04-28-2018, 05:00 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: The winner of the 4T is whatever faction is left standing at the end of it. Enough said.
That is as simple as it gets. I find it hard to believe that a Man in the High Castle scenario is possible (for one thing, the absence of a large number of competent Jewish scientists would have made even the more modest Space Race that we have had, let alone any Nazi effort to reach Mars, possible). Maybe a Stalinist world conquest was more likely (although I can imagine a powerful German commie state going to war with the powerful Soviet Union over some ideological difference; the Soviet Union typically thought that East Germany was the least trustworthy of its satellites, so just imagine how troublesome a unified "Socialist" Germany would have been to the Soviet Union. Or maybe the Commies take over Germany instead of the Nazis in 1933,and the rest of the world gets the hard decisions of whether to support Thallmann or Stalin.
What results will seem, no matter how absurd or implausible before it happens, inevitable after it happens. That includes a Franco-like "Union of Christian and Corporate States" around 2025 to about 2060. Horrible, but able to survive because it crushes all political dissent and cultural 'deviation'.
We all have our ideas of who we don't want in command at the end of the 4T and the start of the 1T. May "the better angels of our nature" (Lincoln) prevail, and may they prevail quickly!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.