gerontocracy
Gerontocracy comes from the ancient Greek expressions γέρων géron (old man, old man) and κράτος krátos (rule) and means " rule of the ancients ". It is a form of rule in which people of old age determine political action.
Artistic processing
In the science fiction - Roman Holy Fire (original title Holy Fire , 1996) describes the American author Bruce Sterling , a future of Western society in which the life expectancy of medicine and technology has been increased to more than 200 years (see also Transhumanism ) so that capital and political power are almost exclusively owned by the gerontocrats. The younger generation live in a parallel society and have little chance of gaining power and prosperity in the course of their lives.
See also
literature
- Aging in late ancient Rome. Patriarchal gerontocracy. in: Psyche and Soma. 2005, issue 5. OCLC 805585970 .
- Gerontocracy . Journal for Intergenerational Justice of the Institute for Political Science , Volume 12, No. 1, Pages 1–48. Tübingen ( Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen ), 2012. No ISBN .
Web links
Wiktionary: Gerontocracy - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Gerontocracy in politik-lexikon.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ geronto- on duden.de
- ↑ Fantastic from Bruce Sterling on phantastik-couch.de