No, not a fantasy, James. The most advanced psychoclass would be all
about peace, of course. However, they would have within their ranks
the most creative (least stultified, least rigid--most free) thinkers
on earth, who could ably attend to such necessities as insuring they
are not vulnerable to their "barbarian" brethren's perpetual need to
war and sacrifice (their own). (They' be like Apple -- fun, happy,
with technology that outpaces all competition.)
I know it's easy to imagine those who are most loving as a bunch of
wayward nymphs and pixies. But what they'd really be would be those
who, when forced into combat (for them it would really be last resort --
if they sensed their "enemies" [lower psychoclasses] were in the mood
for war, they'd be the type to figure out a way to address their
opponent's need with the least amount of bloodshed as possible), they
would be most ably constituted to resist sacrificing their own, to
magnify the conflict, so as to satiate Mother.
When Britain began their great economic expansion in the seventeen-hundreds (the time when they became a nation of "shopkeepers"), the
conservatives at the time said that the emergence and social
predominance of a middle class (the emerging new psychoclass, as
delineated by Lloyd and Stone) who believed life should be about
commercial pleasures, would ensure that britian would become easy prey
for more martial nations (Athens/Sparta references were everywhere in
the conservative press). I believe it was Burke who pointed out that
the emergence of a nation of shopkeepers had gone hand-in-hand with
(and was largely responsible for) the emergence of Britian's great
naval fleet, which was scoring victory-after-victory, as Britian's
commercial empire grew and grew and grew.
Link: RealPsychohistory
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