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"Grotesque subservience" is what _creates_ authoritarian environments.
by bwestergard 2y ago
"Grotesque subservience" is what _creates_ authoritarian environments.
- ajross 2y agoMeh, so does violence and conquest and coups. Certainly there's a feedback cycle between them, but the path to autocracy has many forks. Again it's the rule of law that's the exception, not autocracy.