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I never would have imagined someone idealizing third world corruption. Shits corrupt and prevents these places from developing functioning institutions and gove
by notfromhere 9y ago
I never would have imagined someone idealizing third world corruption. Shits corrupt and prevents these places from developing functioning institutions and governance; the first world used to have the same type of arrangement until stable democratic institutions took over. Pretending its some stable existence is a weird idealization of a shitty scenario.
- slededit 9y agoJohn Mcaffe isn't really idolizing it. His guide is explaining to otherwise hapless western tourists. Of course since he wrote this he had to return to America to flee a murder investigation so you should take everything he says with a grain of salt.
- selimthegrim 9y agoHe's far from the first to do so, although Ashis Nandy had different reasons https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-nandy-affair https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-nandy-affair