Anglosphere political thought is an outgrowth the Looting Spree/Carbon Binge; it's about victory and control and loot distribution. (Mammonites are the heresy that says "distribution? why? I want it all for me.")
Only we know today that you can have success or control; it's an exclusive or, you can't have both.
My impression is that the Taiwanese and Singaporeans and the Vietnamese all governed effectively. And it's really hard to suppose that Vietnamese or the PRC aren't more competent than the current government of Canada. (Harder circumstances, better results.)
So, yeah, I'm definitely on Team Not-This-nor-That-Either, but effective authoritarianism is a thing. There's nothing fundamental that prevents that from happening.
Government by Feels, there is something fundamental that prevents that from happening. And to me it seems like that's the core problem with governance, but we got there because of loot concentration. I continue to believe that nothing we can do will fix politics until we've instituted starkly egalitarian income and asset caps.
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Date: 2021-04-23 02:52 am (UTC)Anglosphere political thought is an outgrowth the Looting Spree/Carbon Binge; it's about victory and control and loot distribution. (Mammonites are the heresy that says "distribution? why? I want it all for me.")
Only we know today that you can have success or control; it's an exclusive or, you can't have both.
My impression is that the Taiwanese and Singaporeans and the Vietnamese all governed effectively. And it's really hard to suppose that Vietnamese or the PRC aren't more competent than the current government of Canada. (Harder circumstances, better results.)
So, yeah, I'm definitely on Team Not-This-nor-That-Either, but effective authoritarianism is a thing. There's nothing fundamental that prevents that from happening.
Government by Feels, there is something fundamental that prevents that from happening. And to me it seems like that's the core problem with governance, but we got there because of loot concentration. I continue to believe that nothing we can do will fix politics until we've instituted starkly egalitarian income and asset caps.