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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2071747" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p><strong>What the Technocracy Realistically Wants: </strong>A peaceful, orderly, clean, safe world. No political strife, people happily obey their leaders, their leaders serve the public well with no corruption or greed. A prosperous economy provides jobs for all, and everyone is able to buy everything they need and want, with technology making an answer for every need and want. Advanced medical technology and cybernetics cures almost all ills of the flesh and mind. Nothing truly unexplained or anomalous in science, a mathematical model for everything and the Grand Unification Theory. People don't believe in superstitious nonsense, religion is an abstraction and tradition at best, and magic is nonsense hokum, there is no such thing as a "soul". In a nutshell: The United Federation of Planets. In D&D terms the Technocracy is definitely a Lawful Neutral organization (with significant Lawful Evil and Lawful Good factions).</p><p></p><p>Only the most outrageous extremist technocrats wants a totalitarian state where all freedom is quashed, there are those who think that it would be good for people, or that the masses need it, but they are a small minority who give the majority a bad image. The worst faction of the Technocrats wants the world to be like Paranoia.</p><p></p><p><strong>What the Traditions Realistically Wants: </strong>A world where people wake up and realize that there is more to the world than what they see. There is an afterlife, there is a higher power, there are spirits and ghosts. For people to realize that Psychics are real and all that folklore passed down had a kernel of truth in it. People tolerate a wide variety of religious and spiritual beliefs, including the practice of magic, and plenty of people acknowledge magic is real, even if they have no interest in it. People have a resurgence of hope, open-mindedness, unity, peace and freedom of thought. Mankind learns to live in harmony with nature, and to respect animal and plant life and the wilderness. Instead of reaching for a bottle of sleeping pills, people probably reach for some chamomile tea or valerian root. People aren't tearing down power plants and throwing out their toilets, but they do realize that technology isn't an end unto itself. People express ideas openly and freely, and the government that governs least governs best. In D&D terms the Traditions are probably Chaotic Neutral (with significant Chaotic Good factions).</p><p></p><p>Only a handful of ancient masters really want a return to some middle-aged world with no industrial technology, no modern science, and nothing developed after the Renaissance where wizards in robes and pointy hats walk around as custodians of the public and the people all believe in powerful magic but leave it to the "professionals" while dragons, elves and faeries roam free like nothing ever changed. In other words, the extremists of the Traditions want a D&D world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 2071747, member: 14159"] [b]What the Technocracy Realistically Wants: [/b]A peaceful, orderly, clean, safe world. No political strife, people happily obey their leaders, their leaders serve the public well with no corruption or greed. A prosperous economy provides jobs for all, and everyone is able to buy everything they need and want, with technology making an answer for every need and want. Advanced medical technology and cybernetics cures almost all ills of the flesh and mind. Nothing truly unexplained or anomalous in science, a mathematical model for everything and the Grand Unification Theory. People don't believe in superstitious nonsense, religion is an abstraction and tradition at best, and magic is nonsense hokum, there is no such thing as a "soul". In a nutshell: The United Federation of Planets. In D&D terms the Technocracy is definitely a Lawful Neutral organization (with significant Lawful Evil and Lawful Good factions). Only the most outrageous extremist technocrats wants a totalitarian state where all freedom is quashed, there are those who think that it would be good for people, or that the masses need it, but they are a small minority who give the majority a bad image. The worst faction of the Technocrats wants the world to be like Paranoia. [b]What the Traditions Realistically Wants: [/b]A world where people wake up and realize that there is more to the world than what they see. There is an afterlife, there is a higher power, there are spirits and ghosts. For people to realize that Psychics are real and all that folklore passed down had a kernel of truth in it. People tolerate a wide variety of religious and spiritual beliefs, including the practice of magic, and plenty of people acknowledge magic is real, even if they have no interest in it. People have a resurgence of hope, open-mindedness, unity, peace and freedom of thought. Mankind learns to live in harmony with nature, and to respect animal and plant life and the wilderness. Instead of reaching for a bottle of sleeping pills, people probably reach for some chamomile tea or valerian root. People aren't tearing down power plants and throwing out their toilets, but they do realize that technology isn't an end unto itself. People express ideas openly and freely, and the government that governs least governs best. In D&D terms the Traditions are probably Chaotic Neutral (with significant Chaotic Good factions). Only a handful of ancient masters really want a return to some middle-aged world with no industrial technology, no modern science, and nothing developed after the Renaissance where wizards in robes and pointy hats walk around as custodians of the public and the people all believe in powerful magic but leave it to the "professionals" while dragons, elves and faeries roam free like nothing ever changed. In other words, the extremists of the Traditions want a D&D world. [/QUOTE]
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