Quote note (#142)
To add to the ledger of Singapore as a redoubt (no doubt beleaguered) of Neoreactionary insight, an opinion piece in the most recent Straits Times begins:
China’s rise has been psychologically disquieting to many in America and the West generally, because in China, capitalism flourishes without liberal democracy. This is regarded as somehow unnatural and illegitimate because it punctures the Western myth of the universality of certain political values and of the inevitability of the development of certain political forms. And unlike, say, Japan or India, China only wants to be China and not an honorary member of the West.
The myth of universality is ahistorical, pretentious and parochial.
It is ahistorical because it ignores the inconvenient fact that every Western country was capitalist long before it was either liberal or democratic as those terms are today understood …
… much sanity follows.
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Posted on January 9th, 2015 at 7:04 pm | Quote“It is ahistorical because it ignores the inconvenient fact that every Western country was capitalist long before it was either liberal or democratic as those terms are today understood …”
A refreshing dose of sanity indeed.
Though the Baron Evola in me wants to point out the the problematic cause-and-effect implication of the sentence “the West was capitalist before it became democratic.”
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Posted on January 9th, 2015 at 10:51 pm | QuoteThe Japs nurtured Indonesian nationalism…. orly?
I’d the notion that the Japs butchered four million Javanese as subhuman. Honestly a better case could be made for the Japanese fostering KOREAN nationalism.
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