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My main worry about enlightened despotism is "what happens when the despot kicks the bucket?". No guarantee their successor will be as enlightened as them. If
by amyjess 11y ago
My main worry about enlightened despotism is "what happens when the despot kicks the bucket?". No guarantee their successor will be as enlightened as them.
If you solve the succession problem, enlightened despotism starts sounding very good.
- jqm 11y agoExcept the term "enlightened" is most often relative to a groups desired outcomes...
- TeMPOraL 11y agoThat's good enough. It's better to have a stable and reasonable ruler that tries to do the Right Thing (i.e. optimize globally in the scale of country) than everyone trying to have it their - however smart or stupid - way.