I'd just like to point out the transporter whole basis for his reasoning is very, very wrong.
The whole idea that everyone is equal is, from a historical point of view, relatively modern. You could say the French Revolution reads like a miracle, for the time's mentality, and EVEN then it didn't quite become a democracy after that lol. Slavery never bothered them, either, for example. Slavery tied to a person's race existed until the end of XIX century, and start of XX. Hecc, the idea women were inferior to men persisted for a long time, and there are people to this day who still think like that...it goes on.
The mentality that everyone is equal isn't something that comes naturally to humans, people fought for it for a long time, and they still fight.
Throwing modern technology at them won't make them more democratic, liberal or revolutionary lol. We've had examples of authoritarian governments and even monarchies/empires that were pro-technology, and very recent ones too. Japan has an Emperor! With uppercase E! (technically, it's a king in a constitutional mornachy, but they call themselves an empire still) It's not an absolute monarchy, but the japanese never bothered with this 'revolution' thing the way we know it because they have a very specific set of cultural values that go against this sort of thing.
What he did there was an anachronism, thinking that people from another time, from another WORLD on top of that, have the same customs or mentality that him and his peers do. People's mentality change with time and space, for the better or worse, depends on how you view it. I know nothing of the society of that another world, but I know you just cannot compare two societies like that.
I'd just like to point out the transporter whole basis for his reasoning is very, very wrong.
The whole idea that everyone is equal is, from a historical point of view, relatively modern. You could say the French Revolution reads like a miracle, for the time's mentality, and EVEN then it didn't quite become a democracy after that lol. Slavery never bothered them, either, for example. Slavery tied to a person's race existed until the end of XIX century, and start of XX. Hecc, the idea women were inferior to men persisted for a long time, and there are people to this day who still think like that...it goes on.
The mentality that everyone is equal isn't something that comes naturally to humans, people fought for it for a long time, and they still fight.
Throwing modern technology at them won't make them more democratic, liberal or revolutionary lol. We've had examples of authoritarian governments and even monarchies/empires that were pro-technology, and very recent ones too. Japan has an Emperor! With uppercase E! (technically, it's a king in a constitutional mornachy, but they call themselves an empire still) It's not an absolute monarchy, but the japanese never bothered with this 'revolution' thing the way we know it because they have a very specific set of cultural values that go against this sort of thing.
What he did there was an anachronism, thinking that people from another time, from another WORLD on top of that, have the same customs or mentality that him and his peers do. People's mentality change with time and space, for the better or worse, depends on how you view it. I know nothing of the society of that another world, but I know you just cannot compare two societies like that.