How the world, with capitalism as its fuel, shifts to a new world order and leaves democracy and nation states as the primary geopolitical actors - behind
I envision the sentence "I’m not particularly attached to democracy as a system per se," is going to bite my butt in the future - so let me say it clearer:
I love many aspects of democracy, and the great things it contributed to the modern world. As I mentioned, this system has heroically defended the great values of Western civilization for many, many decades.
However - our current society, like a spoiled child who thinks they deserve all their parents worked so hard for, have thoughtlessly taken democracy as the end game of human society, forcing stagnation upon us in political thinking and innovation. Ignoring all the obvious flaws which existed in the system from its inception, of which many of the enlightenment thinkers themselves have openly and loudly pointed out, even in the early days.
And as Churchill famously said - "democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"
So yes - I’m not particularly attached to democracy as a system per se, though I see its greatness as well.
wonderful post!
Thanks Randy!
I envision the sentence "I’m not particularly attached to democracy as a system per se," is going to bite my butt in the future - so let me say it clearer:
I love many aspects of democracy, and the great things it contributed to the modern world. As I mentioned, this system has heroically defended the great values of Western civilization for many, many decades.
However - our current society, like a spoiled child who thinks they deserve all their parents worked so hard for, have thoughtlessly taken democracy as the end game of human society, forcing stagnation upon us in political thinking and innovation. Ignoring all the obvious flaws which existed in the system from its inception, of which many of the enlightenment thinkers themselves have openly and loudly pointed out, even in the early days.
And as Churchill famously said - "democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"
So yes - I’m not particularly attached to democracy as a system per se, though I see its greatness as well.