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re: Does America have magic soil?
Posted on 3/13/24 at 8:29 am to burger bearcat
Posted on 3/13/24 at 8:29 am to burger bearcat
The world has developed around Western culture (and its institutions, ideals, culture, etc.). This development requires a certain societal developmental path. If you skip steps, you increase the risk that your underlying population isn't prepared for the next step in development, which can lead to devolution. This is what you see in all the failed former colonial states that came around during industrialization.
Other factors include market-based colonialism (like banana republics), commodity dependence, and external conflict (which isn't always a function of internal issues).
Other factors include market-based colonialism (like banana republics), commodity dependence, and external conflict (which isn't always a function of internal issues).
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Posted on 3/13/24 at 8:32 am to SlowFlowPro
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The world has developed around Western culture (and its institutions, ideals, culture, etc.).
The world has developed because of Western culture. It didn't just magically develop where Western Culture happened to hold sway.
Posted on 3/13/24 at 8:42 am to SlowFlowPro
It’s genetic aptitude. Culture is downstream of genetics.
Posted on 3/13/24 at 8:54 am to SlowFlowPro
You provide far and away the best explanation and garner 3 downvotes to zero. 
A general consensus based on Western culture and values is the key. I love our Constitutional system, and it has served us very well, but other systems also can work well if the culture is there. See, essentially, Western Europe and their parliamentary systems. More autocratic regimes can also work in the sense that they allow for improved material conditions for the majority of their people, see e.g. China, but you have to be jake with the inability to criticize the government, run a meaningful opposition candidate, etc.
A general consensus based on Western culture and values is the key. I love our Constitutional system, and it has served us very well, but other systems also can work well if the culture is there. See, essentially, Western Europe and their parliamentary systems. More autocratic regimes can also work in the sense that they allow for improved material conditions for the majority of their people, see e.g. China, but you have to be jake with the inability to criticize the government, run a meaningful opposition candidate, etc.
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