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minus-square@PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglish4•26 days agoI can’t think of any realistic situation in which the fate of the rulers does not rely on the complicity of the masses short of full AI army shenanigans.
minus-square@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilink9•26 days agoI think history is full of rulers who were hated by their people, but were deposed by their peers for selfish reasons, rather than by uprising. But there is lots of wiggle room in that argument, I admit. My point was more of a technical one than a practical one. I think that a rigid class/caste system can probably work purely on jealousy rather than on propaganda, but this isn’t based on real world example.
I can’t think of any realistic situation in which the fate of the rulers does not rely on the complicity of the masses short of full AI army shenanigans.
I think history is full of rulers who were hated by their people, but were deposed by their peers for selfish reasons, rather than by uprising.
But there is lots of wiggle room in that argument, I admit. My point was more of a technical one than a practical one.
I think that a rigid class/caste system can probably work purely on jealousy rather than on propaganda, but this isn’t based on real world example.