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Originally Posted by kyp275
Indeed.
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When people talk about autocracy being more effective, I think they're incorrect. I think autocracy at best only works in the first/second generation, and only while that generation still has a grip on reality. Ultimately autocracy leads to madness. They end out so separated from reality, that as they spend most of the time defending themselves against internal "enemies", but these powerplays among ruling cliques is more like rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. Ultimately, they're all doomed.
In China the cycle is particularly obvious, most Dynasties start out dynamic, innovative and competent; but ultimately end out rotten to the core. The CCP is just another dynasty in the cycle.
The liberal western system is best, because it allows old corrupt hierarchies to die, and be replaced by new dynamic ones, in a peaceful manner.