As for our Western World, the freedom for social maneuver of an individual is somewhat wider. But here, too, the entire society and population, that is, all nations, can already be considered as a servicing appendage to this sky-high technocratic monster. It is served not only by engineers in the workshops, but also by farmers who feed these engineers. I think this is obvious to you. In past centuries, much was tied to financial games, now not to such an extent.
- And why did they need him, this monster assembler? - Zavirdyaev finally asked.
- With very specific goals, - Landskricht answered. - All these... you can't call them fat cats anymore... all these bosses consider themselves to be quite enlightened characters. In part, this self-assessment is fair - they have a certain vision of the future and they are implementing it, and in this they are quite consistent.
Bandon the Third, whom you personally met, is also concerned, and in this regard he is somewhat ahead of the others. If Oppenheimer, who is a figure associated with the GBA, sees in Conversion only the release of weapons into high orbits, then Bandon dreams, yes, it sounds naive, but he really dreams of the release of humanity, Western humanity into deep space. Like in all this science fiction - cities on the Moon, on Mars and all that. In general, this is quite constructive. I admit it, - she suddenly became somehow cheerful, as if she had not finished telling something, and then finally laughed.
- Or like Soviet fantasies with all these, - she continued to laugh harder, - astronauts in tight-fitting, - she chuckled again, - tight-fitting spacesuits on strong male buttocks.
- Very funny! - Zavirdyaev responded discontentedly, - although I see that something human is not alien to you, at least humor, albeit a so-so one.
- No, really. It's the twenty-second century now. We, well, you, should have, - she giggled again. - lived in a society of equal opportunities and some kind of needs. We should go to... party meetings at the conservatory. Labor, the proletariat... And a concrete house with a dripping brass faucet. And an alcoholic neighbor. How could we live without that?
- Mock, mock, I'll listen, - Zavirdyaev muttered. - This is my country, if that matters. Before, I thought that you treated everything this way because you were a foreigner, although even in that case you could restrain yourself. Now I see that you are with another... okay, you are a black hole, since you like it that way. Of course, you find it funny from your height.
- No, there was an attempt to change something in this world, but, as the youth say, it didn't count. Sometimes it happens that something that starts well degenerates into something that... Here in your wonderful land, spring begins with cheerful drops and sun, and then a little time passes and there are puddles, mud and shit from under the snow everywhere.
Zavirdyaev grimaced with displeasure. He didn't like the comparison. And a stone in the garden, albeit the disgusting Superfederant, too.
- The modern masters of the Western World are also driven by a certain romantic idea, though they don't declare it, this idea, as unceremoniously as your blood-red ancestors did. And they had to choose such a color. Look, the superfederalists, your superfederalists, have everything blue, pleasant to the eye. And in the Superfederant itself, too, the flags are of different colors. And these... Okay, let's be serious. The basis of the whole business, the whole project, in the modern world is the Assembler. This is a super-machine industry, which requires a clearly calculable number of service personnel. And the number of this personnel is much smaller than that which makes up the nations of the Western Bloc.
In relation to this surplus, your bosses have generously formulated the principle of "live, screw you." This is the so-called principle of the Global Vanguard. There is also an outer perimeter - this is the under-national majority, UNM. In its original version, it was envisaged to simply draw conditional geographic boundaries, scattering all the countries into several groups - high-tech flagships, and other secondary ones, such as agricultural, raw materials or generally good for nothing.