Re: Once Upon a time
Yoshie writes:
The rest of the world tend to prefer illiberal democracy, and if you don’t like that, you have to live with dictatorship — which makes space for some personal freedoms at the expense of political freedoms — that suppresses democracy.
Dictatorships like firing squads - do we have to learn to live with
them too? Some decades ago, white Southern USers “preferred”
segregation - should “we” have adapted to that? The Nazis were
popular for a while, too. Should we just give up on all struggles
that draw on the values of the European enlightenment and try to
broaden them beyond a privileged elite? Was the ANC wrong to fight
apartheid using rhetoric of political freedom and human equality?
Should we applaud when hacks like Buthelezi appealed to African
values, and Mahathir to Asian values, against the claims of their
political opponents? Is this the kind of argument that should go out
over a MRZine URL?
Doug