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The Chinese dynastic system lasted for thousands of years, until it stopped working because it turned out to be a shitty system that couldn't cope with the dema
by austinz 13y ago
The Chinese dynastic system lasted for thousands of years, until it stopped working because it turned out to be a shitty system that couldn't cope with the demands placed upon it by a rapidly changing and industrializing world. So I don't even feel that 'time tested' is a particularly good criterion.
- VaedaStrike 13y agoThe Chinese dynastic system was never designed to be an iterative, democratic system that aimed at providing the pursuit of hapiness. Our system has lasted through changes equal in turbulence to that which we are going through now, just a different flavor of it. The Industrial Revolution as merely a single example.
- jacques_chester 13y agoWhat? China has had thousands of years of rotating cycles of stability and ruinous wars.
- saraid216 13y agoThough, to be fair, a good chunk of those dynasties lasted a few hundred years. :P So clearly we should have dynasties and a couple wars of succession to devastate the nation every 50-100 years. Something about the blood of patriots and tyrants. 20 years?
- austinz 13y agoThere are philosophical and bureaucratic similarities among almost all of the major/dominant dynasties after Qin that disappeared after the Qing fell and probably won't come back ever again. But I could have chosen a better example.