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==== Little Dictators ==== | ==== Little Dictators ==== | ||
- | notes from [[scenario_design_201310]] | + | Notes from the Future Fabulators Scenario workshop in October 2013, based on the question "What will happen to [[fear]] in 2033?" |
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+ | In 2033 in the Land of Little Dictators (LLD) all thoughts and actions are driven by suspicion, mistrust, egoism, caginess, greed and dogmatic convictions that exclude all other possible viewpoints, opinions and attitudes. Interactions and transactions – if existing at all – between local or foreign people, companies, or universities are based solely on maximisation of personal profit and assets. Ethical and moral dimensions are off the cards and no one considers others, not the mention “the Other.” Values such as understanding, | ||
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+ | This socioeconomic order has become a highly fertile ground for the growth, spread and promulgation of fear. The poor must be kept in fear to ensure that they serve the rich, and the rich need to fear the loss of their supremacy. Thus we find the emergence of a vast and highly flexible "fear market" | ||
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+ | Structures as well as mindsets have emerged within this ubiquitous fear management system which dominate the entity of the LLD. Firstly we see the unrestricted expansion of an insurance industry which cultivates the illusion that every fear on the market can be comprehensively covered by one or another insurance policy. In the unbalanced social structure of this fearful culture there is no shortage of individuals desperately wanting insure their goods (whether these goods are tangible or intangible, no matter if they are even valuable or can be insured at all). This again assures a handful of people loads of money. | ||
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+ | Secondly, we have a sophisticated system of surveillance in the LLD. A powerful and intimidating Ministry of Surveillance which minutely monitors all business undertaken, controls and charges fees for all sorts of transactions, | ||
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+ | Another effect triggered by this permanent state of intimidation is the rise of psychosomatic diseases. There are increasing numbers of inhabitants (in both of the classes) who just can't endure this constant living in fear. Instead of establishing institutions which would support people who – through a system-immanent triggered malfunction – struggle to participate in a meritocratic society, in the LLD you are simply doomed. Or rather, at least you have one hope: join the lively LLD resistance (if you still find the strength for it either before you get awfully sick or during your illness). The LLD resistance can be seen as another significant phenomenon which is slowly but steadily growing within the LLD itself. The longer this order is perpetuated, | ||
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