From the current point of view, after the power outage, the government hangs up, and an autocratic and powerful military control group has arisen, which treats the people as cattle and horses, which is almost a replica of the Middle Ages.
So the question is, will this be the case?
This involves two questions. First, are people's democratic thinking, human rights thinking, and the model of a modern democratic political system created by the advancement of science and technology to the age of electricity and information?
The answer is no, as early as the Enlightenment period, the basic framework of modern democracy has been put forward, and the world's first autonomous democratic republic, the United States of America, was not born in the electrical age.
That is to say, even if the power goes out, it will not make human beings lose the material basis of democratic thought. This is different from humans returning to the era of agricultural civilization, when there was no basis for this kind of thinking.
The second question is whether the technological regression before the electrical age will be more conducive to the emergence of autocratic regulation?
This is difficult to say, there is no precedent in history. But in my opinion, not necessarily.
Judging from the play, the reason why this Monroe military group can dominate one side is that it has some old-time light weapons, such as pistols and rifles. And if according to the performance in the play, human beings have almost regressed to the age of relying only on human and animal power in the Middle Ages, then these things will definitely consume a lot of fragile goods. So how long can you just rely on these collected things?
Another point of Monroe's hegemony is the strict control of guns and weapons. As a Chinese, we will laugh at this. We have always controlled guns, but even here we have not exaggerated to the point of feudal society in the Middle Ages. Lao Mei is used to freedom. When she sees that guns are controlled, she feels like she is going to die. I thought that someday Lao Mei would make a film and say that freedom of speech is regulated, and then society will collapse. . .
In fact, I personally think that the regression of technology is not good for the ruler. At the current level of science and technology, the ruler has aircraft and tanks, and we have fruit knives. This gap cannot be made up if you want to make up for it, but as in the play, the basic technology Back in the era of bows and arrows, if the rulers had pistols and rifles, and in the age of steam without electricity, the people could make primitive muskets, so the gap between the equipment of the people and the rulers actually narrowed. Then the ruler's high pressure will be more difficult to maintain than it is now.
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