The factions of Dervip: Universalists part 1
Article by Kazfek, Written 10/13/2022
The Dervip are inspired by the 20 man republic and its founder ideologies but the most radical of them is the Universalists. The 20 man republic was when for the first and last time, 20 young adults each from a different important noble family where allowed to visit outside the nation and where given massive amounts of money to spend on the visit. None of that matters currently and let us instead focus on the philosophy created by the then 21 year old Ethjur. Ethjur was unique amongst the 20 since he didn’t focus on overall knowledge and instead focused on archeology and the development of historical politics. He is popular even though his many conclusions are flawed and wrong, he has still made a popular impression on the Dervip mindset. The universalists believe that every society is naturally floating towards democracy but this is hindered by the powerful and underdevelopment in society. They believe that the industrial revolution has unlocked the ability for what they know as true democracy. Although the Universalist view of democracy is actually a rejection of the traditional egalitarian and individualist views of democracy. They believe that each person is born with a certain set of unchanging natural talents and interests and so each person is born destined for a certain role in life. They want all levels of government to be elected, including the military as they believe that since people have limited knowledge of themselves and others can observe them that the people would elect those who are best fit for the role. Their view on democracy is rather interesting. They believe that democracy stems from the community and as such democracy should be organized regionally as direct democracies and then a representative democracy is set up nationally to keep the bare minimum required for democracy and society’s functioning. They even believe that democracy should be applied to electing leaders for the military. Now I will not be covering universalist economics right now and will come back to that soon but in conclusion universalists are so radical for democracy that they bend the common views of democracy backwards and reject basic facts of human nature and logic