Daevonar
Minmatar
Starfish Operating Syndicate
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Posted - 2009.03.08 17:20:00 -
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Saying that the Minmatar nations political structure is in stasis on the basis that you cannot see any radical or momentous change is ludicrous. A government is not successfull because its actions are constantly brought in to the public realm as news worthy or because it constantly re-invents itself. In fact dynamic change and constant redefinition is only presenting an illusion of a vibrant government, hiding the reality which is that it is incapable of carrying out, or understanding it's peoples needs, in short its ability to govern efficiently has been paralysed.
You do not see a republic parliament in meeting all the time becuase the day to day governance of the people is now, as it should rightfully be, being carried out at a Tribal level by those leaders which each tribe has, in whatever way they deem to be best for them, chosen to lead them. This is in fact the way most of our lives were ordered, even when the old Gallente model of parliament was in full swing. Our politics as such have never traditionally been seen as a seperate part of our lives, they permeate from the family, through the clan, tribal and up to national level, and as such do not take the form of a seperate political layer or entity this is the biggest reason the Gallente idea of democracyt failed, it tried to seperate politics from people. And when something is an integral part of your daily life it loses meaning when viewed as a seperate item, indeed it loses its very definition and becomes unclear and vapourous. This is why you do not see a great political machine within the Minmatar nation, the tribes and the people are the politics, but they are so much more, and they are inseperable, it is impossible to study, identify, categorise and understand one component in isolation to the whole.
Of course such an organic and devolved governance needs direction and steering, and to that end Shakor has called a meeting of the tribal leaders who will discuss and come to aggreement, or not maybe, on the directions we should be taking, but they will not sit in isolation in their chamber and order how the tribes are to achieve our goals, this will be done when they return to their tribes as the ideas will permeate down the system from National, to tribal, to clan to family, each working in their own way, but each with the idea of a shared and common understanding. You will not see this overtly, it will not cause endless debate in the news, it will not require a change to our current systems of governance it will happen within the existing framework, because that framework is a part of our lives already, we live it and we can adapt it without destroying it or making it something new.
Do not also make the mistake of believing that Shakor is a leader in the true sense, nor that he has absolute power because of his title. He is a spokesman for the tribes, he has his title because the tribes have agreed to work together to protect the interests of all matari, he neither needs to pander to the masses for favour, nor is he capable of forcing the tribes to act as he wishes; he is a symbol and catalyst of the Tribes pledge to act together as a nation when required, nothing more, if he appears to lead it is merely because a symbol is always the first thing you can identify when examining a movement who's origins are hard to pinpoint.
Dae.
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