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.
For instance, the current form of moderate ethno fascism that runs China results from reforming Maoist totalitarianism, after it ate feudalist absolutism with Konfucian norms.
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This is what it looks like to someone who thinks that the "freer society" is not collapsing all around us. From the perspective of the engineers running China, and who hope to still have it run in 2000 years from now, it might seem different?
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