2/ also, I think that the Enlightenment is dying at home. If we have some fixed amount of cultural effort to spend, would it be better to reestablish norms re free speech and free association at home, or try to push them in Pakistan?
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Stop trying to do it at gunpoint, and stop leaving it to the same people who run military procurement and the IRS.
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Brainwash their kids by taking over the education system. I mean, it worked perfectly like a charm in the USA.
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First we're going to need a few hundred million Puritans, Cavaliers and Scots-Irish. Then....
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This feels like a trick question where the real answer is "we shouldn't be trying to do that at all."
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Look, if we want to give them American founders' style libertine ideals that's one thing. I don't think that was tried. We gave them US statism without the powerful state willing and able to murder armed dissent or a public sufficiently comfortable and passified to be ruled by it
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We didn't try to export our culture -we tried to export the fake culture that our elite has been trying to overlay on American for 50 years. And it hasn't worked here, either.
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Did we skip a step? We didn’t see similar issues in Japan or Germany, but then, there was no question left that we defeated them.
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I have no doubt we succeeded but what parts of our culture were exported is the question. I suspect you'll find more bootleg discs of 'Scarface' in homes of those nations than anything of a more positive bent.
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