Geopolitics

This may be the strongest case for authoritarianism:

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-liberal-democracy-might-lose

Basically: the war for people's hearts and minds has no stable equilibrium except local hegemony of one dominant elite, much like (and for the same reasons as) what Hobbes pointed out for regular war.

Intriguing, and thanks for sharing, maybe liberal democracy thrives best in ethnically homogenous state, while multi-ethnic empires tend to do better under monarchic rule?! What do I know, just thinking aloud here, but compare, for example, 700 years of Switzerland’s democracy vs Hungarian-Austrian empire…

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lastly I think the goals have just changed

west goal is liberalism while china's is growth and improving people lives, they spice it up with control etc. but that may or may not help them boost growth

hard to tell but I think if west can shift their goals towards tech and growth, add crypto to it (that ensures there can't be autocracy like in China by financially locking you in)