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@compost_enjoyer
I don’t buy the line that nation building is difficult; I think we’re just doing it wrong. Build an SEZ, so something that moderately improves conditions, and the rest of the country will adopt those policies. When you’re neighbors are getting rich, you copy them.
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Antipodal Gray
@0xGray
This is actually the problem - if you want to do nation building you are inherently changing a culture. You can’t have it in the back of your mind so that all ways of being in the world are equal and then go about trying to reform one.
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Antipodal Gray
@0xGray
This is why I don’t think 2020s America would be able to do to Japan what post- World War II America did. If you don’t believe in the primacy of your way of being in the world why should they
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Antipodal Gray
@0xGray
Your last line here is partly the problem I think - outside of whether it is a good thing or not, a distaste for nation building because of colonialist associations will make you do half-measures and fail