dead man walking wrote: democracy may work here, but a ruthless overlord is the proper way to control tribes of goat herders who happened to find oil under their feet.
I think this is true. The idea that a group of people will immediately adopt our values and effectively implement them after no exposure or experience of them is silly.
dead man walking wrote: democracy may work here, but a ruthless overlord is the proper way to control tribes of goat herders who happened to find oil under their feet.
I think this is true. The idea that a group of people will immediately adopt our values and effectively implement them after no exposure or experience of them is silly.
It's because we gave them what they were used to-- ineffective competing bureaucracies that can't run a country.
"Liberalism is arbitrarily selective in its choice of whose dignity to champion." Adrian Vermeule
