The point about closing tech gaps is real, but... to be fair, Paul Collier studied this extensively and foreign students also tend to export liberal/americanised political attitudes back to their home countries as well (at least when and if they move back.)
Also btw I hold the view that exporting ‘Big Beige’ thought abroad is also bad (and this is our own fault). Some people think spreading liberalism to our enemies would be good to weaken them, I disagree. Aside from my personal opinion that it’s morally unacceptable, the entire world falling in line with and advocating for shitlib ideas just makes it harder to resolve it here due to global ideological reinforcement and RWers won’t get to point fingers at successful non-shitlib states.
I wouldn't have links to the original papers- I'm just basing this off video lectures Collier did on YouTube. I imagine he covers the topic in either Exodus or The Bottom Billion, though.
> " Some people think spreading liberalism to our enemies would be good to weaken them, I disagree. Aside from my personal opinion that it’s morally unacceptable, the entire world falling in line with and advocating for shitlib ideas just makes it harder to resolve it here due to global ideological reinforcement and RWers won’t get to point fingers at successful non-shitlib states"
There are flavours of liberalism that are less corrosive than others. Mass immigration and LGBT-fetishization is a bad idea, but I don't think libs should apologise for curbing FGM or introducing birth control to Africa. I don't even think "closing tech gaps" is automatically a bad idea, if we're talking about forest gardens and aquaponics to mitigate food scarcity or eliminating polio with vaccine jabs.
China should be perfectly capable of educating its own citizens at this point, though.
Great article.Will you ever do an article on the jQ question
The point about closing tech gaps is real, but... to be fair, Paul Collier studied this extensively and foreign students also tend to export liberal/americanised political attitudes back to their home countries as well (at least when and if they move back.)
Great article otherwise, in total agreement.
I would be interested to see that research.
Also btw I hold the view that exporting ‘Big Beige’ thought abroad is also bad (and this is our own fault). Some people think spreading liberalism to our enemies would be good to weaken them, I disagree. Aside from my personal opinion that it’s morally unacceptable, the entire world falling in line with and advocating for shitlib ideas just makes it harder to resolve it here due to global ideological reinforcement and RWers won’t get to point fingers at successful non-shitlib states.
I wouldn't have links to the original papers- I'm just basing this off video lectures Collier did on YouTube. I imagine he covers the topic in either Exodus or The Bottom Billion, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Collier#Books
> " Some people think spreading liberalism to our enemies would be good to weaken them, I disagree. Aside from my personal opinion that it’s morally unacceptable, the entire world falling in line with and advocating for shitlib ideas just makes it harder to resolve it here due to global ideological reinforcement and RWers won’t get to point fingers at successful non-shitlib states"
There are flavours of liberalism that are less corrosive than others. Mass immigration and LGBT-fetishization is a bad idea, but I don't think libs should apologise for curbing FGM or introducing birth control to Africa. I don't even think "closing tech gaps" is automatically a bad idea, if we're talking about forest gardens and aquaponics to mitigate food scarcity or eliminating polio with vaccine jabs.
China should be perfectly capable of educating its own citizens at this point, though.
Ah, I see. Okay if that’s what you mean by liberalism then I’m inclined to agree.