Timeline for How to replenish an aristocracy?
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| Jun 5, 2017 at 8:32 | answer | added | SZCZERZO KŁY | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 0:57 | comment | added | Isaac Kotlicky | @user535733 your comment reminds me of an interesting speculative fiction I read about first contact with aliens. This first inquiry received (when translated) was "Hello! We are [alien race]. Do you eat babies too?" Essentially, the evolutionary factors of this civilization meant that the regularly had to engage in culling of their broodlings to keep the population in check. Eating babies became shorthand for being beneficent and self sacrificing for the good of the whole. No reason these Grey might not develop a similar set of behaviors. | |
| Jun 4, 2017 at 12:20 | answer | added | Amadeus | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 4, 2017 at 3:56 | answer | added | Brythan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 4, 2017 at 3:13 | answer | added | 2redshirt | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 4, 2017 at 2:29 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 4, 2017 at 1:36 | comment | added | JDługosz | Captive breeding program? Works with polar bears… | |
| Jun 4, 2017 at 1:34 | answer | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jun 4, 2017 at 0:00 | comment | added | dcy665 | How long lived are they? As to children not being ideology pure as their parents why wouldn't they be? They were raised in a closed society, no to little outside influences. Think modern times and many faith based societies produce little worshipers in droves. USA, not so much. Although more of late it would appear. :-/ 1K is barely sufficient for genetic survival, so genetic engineering might be critical. | |
| Jun 3, 2017 at 23:57 | comment | added | user535733 | If the society lacks upward/downward mobility, it risks becoming politically unstable and overthrown. One of the many reasons for the French Revolution was that smart and rich (but lower-class) merchants got tired of bowing to (hereditary, upper-class) fools. Upward/downward mobility is also a much more humane solution that an upper-class eugenics program. Who wants to kill their own children instead of sending them off to become a merchant or artisan? And how many upper-class parents will simply fake the child's death while secretly fostering them out...to keep their souls? | |
| Jun 3, 2017 at 23:54 | comment | added | Fayth85 | Well thought out, I'll grant you that. Not sure how to ensure the quality you seek. Perhaps a meritocracy within the ranks? "To succeed me, you must surpass me. Failure is a death sentence." It would put the necessary fire under their butts, so to speak. | |
| Jun 3, 2017 at 23:46 | history | asked | user289661 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |