I have missed your clarity of mind Eliezer, it is very good to hear your voice again.
I’m not sure it would be a good thing for anyone if states and counties seceded into ever-smaller units and elected the usual run of even more nitwit governments, especially if it was only the democracies that started doing that.
I’m not sure of this either, but democracies don’t seem to fight much, or even want to, and it’s not clear that small countries are more prone to electing nitwits, so what are we worried about?
I’d be just as worried by the thought of the world’s democracies unifying.
It seems to me that democracy is even more appalling than usual as a form of government for states that have two distinct tribes. The majority tribe ends up imposing a one-party state on the minority, with all the injustice and corruption that that implies.
Consider e.g. Zimbabwe. But also England and Ireland. Unity was very bad for the Irish, and separation has been unambiguously good for both countries.
I have missed your clarity of mind Eliezer, it is very good to hear your voice again.
I’m not sure of this either, but democracies don’t seem to fight much, or even want to, and it’s not clear that small countries are more prone to electing nitwits, so what are we worried about?
I’d be just as worried by the thought of the world’s democracies unifying.
It seems to me that democracy is even more appalling than usual as a form of government for states that have two distinct tribes. The majority tribe ends up imposing a one-party state on the minority, with all the injustice and corruption that that implies.
Consider e.g. Zimbabwe. But also England and Ireland. Unity was very bad for the Irish, and separation has been unambiguously good for both countries.