03-10-2003, 08:00 PM
"I do understand however that a dictatorship will not promote this kind of progression."
Stalin and his cohorts promoted the sort of progression that you outline, in that advances in technology and education were important priorities, if not THE priority. His was, if not running a dictatorship pure, certainly driving an autocratic model, to put it mildly. One of the key objectives of the Soviet System was universal education, and a high quality education at that. Given the Soviet successes in space, I'd say they achieved that goal pretty well, dictatorship/tyrrany or not.
In any case, I would suggest that education is more important than "introducing" technology. Developing the mind as a tool is more important than creating new gadgets, though the well developed minds will do that anyway. :) The folks in Japan have been showing us that for quite a while.
Stalin and his cohorts promoted the sort of progression that you outline, in that advances in technology and education were important priorities, if not THE priority. His was, if not running a dictatorship pure, certainly driving an autocratic model, to put it mildly. One of the key objectives of the Soviet System was universal education, and a high quality education at that. Given the Soviet successes in space, I'd say they achieved that goal pretty well, dictatorship/tyrrany or not.
In any case, I would suggest that education is more important than "introducing" technology. Developing the mind as a tool is more important than creating new gadgets, though the well developed minds will do that anyway. :) The folks in Japan have been showing us that for quite a while.
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete