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Then we will find many Fascism countries in today's world. The strong bullies the weak, that's what happens when there is no authority above the states. A jungl
by hnthrowaway0328 2y ago
Then we will find many Fascism countries in today's world. The strong bullies the weak, that's what happens when there is no authority above the states. A jungle.
- foogazi 2y agoHas there ever been an authority above the states ?
- 082349872349872 2y agoKennedy proposed one, but was cancelled for his efforts. > if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor —not a new balance of power, but a new world of law— where the strong are just, and the weak secure, and the peace preserved. —JFK (one might even argue that he and Khrushchev were able to establish a beachhead of cooperation, but note that the latter also found himself cancelled, shortly after Kennedy's)
- krapp 2y agoI don't know what you're implying. His head just did that.
- 082349872349872 2y agoReworded; is it clearer now? (I guess if I'm implying anything, it's that supernational arrangements are not only difficult from the normal entropic point of view; they've also proven difficult because some people are hostile to them: at times even violently hostile)
- Animats 2y agoThat was the plan for the United Nations. Get all the major powers who won WWII to work together to clamp down on anybody else with conquest plans.
- 082349872349872 2y ago> The strong bullies the weak I suspect that's part of what Orwell meant by "it is impossible to define Fascism satisfactorily without making admissions".
- Animats 2y ago> The strong bullies the weak. The big problem is when that becomes a desirable state of affairs. That's the story of Russia, run by the "hard men", or 'siloviki' for well over a century, with occasional brief outbreaks of liberalism. After the USSR went down, the market for goons dried up. There were many unemployed siloviki. Putin, laid off by the KGB, used to drive a cab in Prague. But the siloviki were able to turn that around. First was the era of the oligarchs. Then Putin got the oligarchs under control. Now he's a de-facto emperor. 24 years in charge so far. Xi Jinping (16 years) and Benjamin Netanyahu (16 years) are similar. All of them are worse at their jobs than others who have occupied the same office.
- r00fus 2y ago> Xi Jinping (16 years) and Benjamin Netanyahu (16 years) are similar. I don't see how China's ascendancy to the 2nd largest economy and largest manufacturing capacity is nothing short of amazing. All while being detested and feared by the US and the "west".