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Pure democracies can degenerate into autocracies. Republics are what you want.
Tweets From Naval
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The Chinese and Persians did not lack technological inventions such as steam engines (which could be freely copied or bought). They lacked the values, myths, judicial apparatus and sociopolitical structures that took centuries to form and mature in the West and which could not be copied and internalised rapidly.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
One of the most common benedictions of the anointed is the use of the word “science” to describe notions which are consonant with their vision, but which have neither the certainty nor the intellectual rigor of science.
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
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