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Why do all 150 countries have to do the same thing? Why can’t the Swedish people decide they are sick and tired of the Washington consensus with its effects on
by bradleyjg 3y ago
Why do all 150 countries have to do the same thing? Why can’t the Swedish people decide they are sick and tired of the Washington consensus with its effects on fertility, among other things, and try something different?
It was less than 100 years ago that a small but not trivial number of people conceived and founded kibbutzim. Not the somewhat pathetic version that exists today, but the original radical version.
I’m not saying it was a great idea but they believed that something different was possible and tried to build it. Who does that today?
- inglor_cz 3y agoIt is a bit of a Red Queen problem. Surely you can individually opt out of a certain secular trend, but there may be serious adverse consequences. Same as if you decide not to employ, say, gunpowder or the printing press; how many such societies survived the pressure of their neighbours?