I was thinking of starting my own political party just for fun and I can't seem to come up with a name. Thinking about it, I'm not sure what sort of label properly even captures my political beliefs. I'm open to suggestions:
- Dictatorship/Absolute Monarch > Democracy/Republic
- Market Economy > Planned Economy
- Private Property Ownership > Public Property Ownership
- Strict Objective Moral Values Enforced by Government > No Moral Values Enforced by Government
- Racial homogeny > diversity.
- Elitist > Egalitarian
- Patriarchy > Equality
- Military Class Rule > Merchant Class Rule
- Taxes as close to 0% to still maintain society > high taxes
- No welfare state whatsoever > any welfare state
What would you call such politics if you wanted to give it a catchy label?
They don't though. If the merchant class ruled, we wouldn't have Disney pouring billions into unwatchable sermons. Companies would not be spending themselves into debt to hire priestly commissars; HR would not rule over the CEO. Only priests do that.
I have personally been in the room with rich trust fund managers who spent their money to hire a black diversity consultant who proceeded to lecture them all what horrible racist pieces of shit they were, and all the ways they had to 'atone' for it. Priests.
Probably more fair to say the merchant class enforces rather than rules.
Just like a law making sense has no bearing on whether or not a cop enforces it, Disney losing money enforcing Regime ideology has no bearing on whether or not Disney enforces it. But you are correct that Disney didn't originate that ideology.
But I think somewhere we have this intuition that the merchant class shouldn't be enforcers either. They're supposed to provide what their customers want (within the bounds of the law) and succeed or fail on that basis and not based on how well they enforce Regime ideology.
The new priesthood is gay and lame.
You may have a point. The merchants did take over in the 1800s-1900s but now the priest of the merchants are taking over.