Dr. Core
Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:14:06 -0800
Joseph Riggs wrote: > Depending on how the system of government works, having a coordinator > dominated
Well I am allowing for any and all possibilities, with a general emphasis on Gundam-like background. So take pre-OYW UC if you like, or pre-war Cosmic Era, so however the system of government works in Zeon Republic (not Duchy) and Earth Federation, or PLANT and Earth Alliance, we can use them as models. > government may be an indication that coordinators are well-accepted. If you > have a > system of government that allows for the election of members of government by > those > that they represent, then either the Coordinators are in the majority, or the > majority of > people really don't care (or at least enough naturals don't care to provide a > majority when > combined with the coordinator population). Sure if you like to limit to a small number of explanations or processes how the Coords come to dominate positions of power, be my guest. The point is, however it works, whether it works like a Western democracy, the Vatican, the Communist party or LA drug gangs. The definition of a MR is that their members are inherently more adapted than the LR to rise to the most competitive, most desired positions. I wasn't asking HOW the Coords rise to the top, but once they got there, what would the Naturals think, say or do? Let's take your scenarios: 1. The Coords have somehow grown from a few individuals (test tube babies?) to outnumber the Naturals, so their candidates win the elections. 2. The Naturals don't care enough to put their candidates all the way to the top. (I can think of a great many other possibilities, but let's stick with yours) So would the Naturals be all content and go, "well c'est la vie!" If not, what would they do? (I am hugely tempted to point to certain groups of real world writers, commentators and comedians; but I'm desperately trying to delay real world to Part III) > necessarily translate into the greater ability as a politician. A high IQ > has little to do with > how effective a politician someone will be. Rather, > an effective politician has an > assortment of somewhat nebulous qualities that aren't directly tied into the > traits we Well if you remember various posts by me, you know that I think IQ is a few orders less respectable and real than fenshui and alchemy. So let's just leave the IQ out. Anyhow, if the MR and the genetic engineering doesn't give one side a clear and comprehensive advantages in your "assortment of somewhat nebulous qualities", then the MR isn't really worth a lot of beans is it? In fact if the MR doesn't dominate the economic and political arenas, then we simply fall back into the Gundam X ending, declare that Newtype/MR is an illusion and fantasy, end of discussion. -- Dr. Core -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II list@gundam.com Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list