
balajis
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Ah, I don't think it's beside the point at all.
If the new government is crooks, and the old government was crooks, then it is just crook vs crook.
In particular, the fact that the new government (which is, as you agree, also funded by drug dealers) is opposed to the old government is just a turf battle between different factions of drug dealers.
And that's the unfortunate situation in much of Latin America.
The people caught in the middle have to survive somehow. They themselves aren't committing crimes, but they have no choice but to interact with criminal governments.
To escape, they only have a few options: (1) exit via emigration, (2) exit by negotiating a special economic zone, or (3) use the internet to call in reinforcements from abroad.
Note that both (1) and (2) still require interacting with the criminal government. As for (3), that's why ZEDEs called on the global courts system, for a more fair hearing than they could get locally from Castro's crooks (which, again, we agree are crooks). 1 reply
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A few points.
(1) The history of startup societies is actually one of great success. William Penn’s Pennsylvania worked. The Massachusetts Bay colony worked. Oneida worked. The United States of America, for all its flaws, worked for 250 years. Really, virtually every major city and country in the Americas was essentially founded from scratch in the last few hundred years.
(2) Moreover, these new startup societies were responsible for many of the democratic innovations we take for granted. Concepts like representative democracy, written constitutions, and universal suffrage were pioneered, popularized, or reinvented in the New World. These social innovations then filtered back to Europe.
(3) Yes, no doubt many societies did fail, like Roanoke, and many of the new political ideas failed, like Prohibition, but in general without trying (and sometimes failing) there is no progress whatsoever — whether social or technological.
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