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Vitalik Buterin
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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.
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llamatron
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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
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I'm thinking ethnicity mattered before because the only way you consumed information was from the area you were living in. Right now hundreds of millions of people are absorbing internet values and 3 people born in 3 different places on earth will have similar thinking as if they were one ethnicity.
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If your message is, for example, saying it's ok to change your gender to a general public of a 300m people country, just because you're liberal, I think that creates millions of problems which may be worse than an autocrat govt.
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