For a revealing glimpse into a possible quasi-immortalist "gerontocratic" society, I recommend Bruce Sterling's "Holy Fire." ❋ Mac (2006)
Or as he put it: "This captivation with the colossus of cultural imperialism … from the yé-yés' teenage earnestness to the gerontocratic frivolity of governance." ❋ Unknown (2012)
Having spent his formative years watching gerontocratic totalitarian states collapse around him, he knows what happens in countries that don't allow political competition. ❋ Geoffrey T. Smith (2011)
She will not be beholden to superstition and "gerontocratic tradition." ❋ Raymond Zhong (2011)
You join the oligarchic, gerontocratic elite and what do you do next? ❋ Unknown (2010)
But I would cast a vote for reconsidering the entire seniority and committee assignment process, and making the whole thing more democratic and less gerontocratic. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"[Noah] Webster devised a plan to check the egalitarian tide by raising the voting age to forty-five, dividing the electorate into two classes according to age and wealth, and letting each class choose one house of Congress -- an Americanized gerontocratic version of the British Lords and Commons." ❋ Unknown (2006)
Meanwhile, the gerontocratic elite will have a supreme weapon against the young: compound interest. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Royal's nomination suggests a clear break with the rather gerontocratic model to which French politics is often prone. ❋ Oxford Analytica (2006)
The conversion to the ideology of neoconism of Christopher, who, despite his hatred of religion, has taken to dropping in to synagogues as he travels to express his ethnic solidarity, is a good example of this venerable tendency toward gerontocratic ethnocentrism. ❋ Steve Sailer (2005)
You're right that population growth would mitigate some of the effects of polygamy, especially in gerontocratic polygamous systems, although rapid population growth has mostly been confined to the the last few generations, with only slow growth in Africa before the 20th century. ❋ Steve Sailer (2005)
One iologist Rudo Gaidzanwa said the gains of 20 years have been "overturned by a sleight of hand whereby provisions of gerontocratic rules in peasant societies (are being) hauled out of the archives selectively ... to discipline those sections of the community that are a thorn in the flesh of older males in our society". ❋ Unknown (1999)
Feature: Revising the gerontocratic myths in African political leadership; a platform for youth revolutionarism. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This is much better funded, decentralised, free of gerontocratic structures, more mobile and willing to invest in fundamental research, including in those areas that are not immediately linked to economic profit. ❋ Ioana Bot (2010)
Partly because the gerontocratic leadership of Leonid Brezhnev failed to start reforms in the early ❋ Unknown (2009)
No bogus power-sharing deals which will subsequently be slyly abrogated by some gerontocratic madman. ❋ Unknown (2009)