Re: Semi-OT: The Icaran Empire Preview (the book o
Well after losing an entire huge post this will be less plithy. Arsefez.
In short. I'm not American and I'm no fan of the US system for a lot of reasons. Not that the British system is perfect mind. That Icara is unamerican, so what? If anything that's a good thing in my book.
That's not the reason I consider it dystopian and evil. It's the personality cult of the leader, huge constantly watching security force, the unquestionable Praetor, the constant indocrination and the intolerance of all but the 'correct' way.
Finally history shows people want their opinion listened to, from the senates of Rome and Athens, through Magna Carta and the Italian city state charters to the colonial revolts of the last century. They're just the obvious ones, there are hundreds of others.
To have reached a stage were no citizens wants to influence how their country is run is no easy feat, yet Icara apparently has. At what cost to free will is the question?
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