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

• Pensioner democracy

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

1. ↑ geronto- on duden.de
2. ↑ Fantastic from Bruce Sterling on phantastik-couch.de