Zaolat wrote:Unibot III wrote:NPO apparently can’t decide whether this development is a liberal reform worth international praise or an internal change with little consequence, whose introduction here was presumably intended to elicit an apathetic response.
My two final cents on the matter: Francoism has been an enormous success in defining the continued rationale for the New Pacific Order; the alternatives in the past, gobbledygook and egoism, strongly suggest the NPO will lazily give up its efforts to replace Francoism a year in, and return to Francoism when Ivan has less sway with the Emperor.
The change to the Charter is superficial. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to see the Emperor forget all about it, replace the Charter unilaterally, and find no one had the balls to dissent.
If LoD remains Emperor for an entire year, with or without Ivan around, I highly doubt this occurring. I also think when LoD abdicates, his chosen successor would probably be someone with little interest to restore it either. After that, who knows? I do think my fellow comrades, would not appreciate someone down the line doing such unilaterally. In this case it isn't entirely unilaterally, I do believe plenty of the Body Republic would voice against making a choice to play the way things had been.
You don't have to believe me. Some people here will take maybe part of my word or accept that they think I believe my words are true at least. Obviously, like you, I don't actually know what's going to be in store for the future since we aren't there yet to see it. We can make assumptions based on history, words, and actions.
I can tell you, I've gotten to know a lot more people. All this stuff has brought us together, and not in a negative way some people think. In doing this, I got to see what people inside truly think and discuss such things. While I can't say we will ever intentional appease anyone or be super friends, I do think there are plenty of efforts to make things better. No, that doesn't mean a democracy or anything, but we've had good reason to think out plenty of things.
The major thing being overlooked is you don't need an Emperor to be pro-Franco for Francoism to creep back into common usage. The level of
apathy of the Emperor and the
turnover of senators can decide these internal political changes, oftentimes slowly and unconsciously.
Francoism is an attractive and compelling world view that brings recruits in NS to the NPO. Subsequently, it's a snowball that's been devilishly challenging for its critics in the NPO to unwind since it's started to roll.
It's thought the dictatorship
facilitates camaraderie: the "bunker" mentality of a group under international siege brings insiders together, the access to internal secrets rewards loyalty and engenders feelings of association. But I think a lot of it's false, the dictatorship is a big elephant in the room that disrupts camaraderie. NPO can be a nice home for friends in spite of the dictatorship - not because of it. The unilateral power of the emperor pits each insider against one another - raising the value of the individual relationship between the emperor and the insider while ultimately diminishing the value of contribution and commitment.
I think the nature of the NPO from the inside changes when you start to see people close to you or you yourself get into the emperor's crosshairs, like the Hemingway quote: "When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you ... Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you."
I also think the regions with the most camaraderie internally, tend to be more liberalised autocracies, regionalist in nature. That's what Feux and Milograd brought to the PRL - and I think that's what they prefer - and it's also what Osiris and TWP have enjoyed at various points in time. It combines the group psychology of a besieged collective with the personal and political freedom of most other GCRs.
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 7:22 pm
