How come people dont comment on this?
They're scared 'cause this thread is just too awesome.
How come people dont comment on this?
At his death he was considered one of the wealthiest men in the world. In his first will, written in 1877 before he had accumulated his wealth, Rhodes wanted to create a secret society that would bring the whole world under British rule.[6] The exact wording from this will is:
To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands where the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial representation in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the disjointed members of the Empire and, finally, the foundation of so great a Power as to render wars impossible, and promote the best interests of humanity.[45]
These go to eleven.Wasn't that OTL, as already mentioned? After all, most of the Earth was in oppressive imperialist chains for the benefit of a handful, and the remainder was either malruled or finishing off its ethnic cleansing.... And even the Long Depression. Hard to do better dystopia wise.
Well, except Jared's TL.
To add on, here is a scenario.:Alongside my previous idea of a Confederacy which itself breaks apart, a complicating element there is the prospect of not just the US reabsorbing region by region, state by state those seceded areas, but when the Confederacy balkanizes, European powers like Britain and France can make those states and nations client states and occupied areas.
Instead of the CSA, have it be the slaves THEMSELVES who rebel agianst the United States, resulting in Northerners being drafted by the US Army under president Buchanan fighting a bitter war to re-enslave people they believe should be free to begin with.
The difficulty is how to get a massive, national slave rebellion.
Other than assassinating a few more people and maybe making reconstruction more harsh, I cant see how it would really become a dystopia.What about the possibility of John Wilkes Booth escaping into the South successfully, or managing to evade the law for a longer period of time?
Other than assassinating a few more people and maybe making reconstruction more harsh, I cant see how it would really become a dystopia.
Yes, it does. But I dont see how it could make the world a dystopia.It makes things more complicated.
Yes, it does. But I dont see how it could make the world a dystopia.