It is dangerous if people think of our liberal democracy as a baseline condition of society, its administration as bad as it gets. Our society is a complex clockwork, much easier to destroy than to fix. The baseline condition is civil war.
Religious totalitarianism was the default for humanity since we formed agrarian societies. Totalitarianism is what got us here. The death tolls of totalitarianism are the flip side of forming arbitrarily large economic entities with full top-down control.
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Pluralism was the conclusion of the cost to enforce totalitarianism, but a full commitment to pluralism entails the deconstruction of moral universalism. After that, a good chunk of our productivity progress came not just from liberalism, but also from modernist totalitarianisms.
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