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.

It feels to me like authoritarianism works when it gets to leech off of capitalistic liberal democracies, in terms of innovation, liquidity, and education. It’s hard to imagine a world where an authoritarian hegemon is the sociocultural epicenter of the world, but maybe that’s my bias.

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Spot on. China wouldn’t be nearly where it is without the theft of half of the world’s IP.