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[oakfarm]

So to the delight of Putin and Xi, the liberal world order from my formable years is gone.




For a reason unknown to me, only the Nordic countries are dark blue on this map. In the rest of it not even Canada get that high democraty index.

Watch on YouTube

And what can I do?
1. Comfort myself with a coffee cup, a book by Donna Tartt and a cigarette in one hand? That was actually one thing I did after 9/11. But now I am slighly older and should be viser.
2. That bring me to another suggestion. Just accept we live in a broken world.
3. Scream myself blue about it online.
4. Find a way to help defend democraty.

Comments

[cactus_rs]

idk mang that video seems like... extremely tinhatty and reactionary to me.

If Canada is becoming more authoritarian, it's much more likely due (like the US) to conventional conservative parties losing ground and grasping at a small but vocal and highly reactionary portion of the electorate like an awful version of political steroids, and it's been going on for probably forty years at this point. Trying to blame it on another country is pretty ridiculous, and this particular angle plays into the shitty anti-Asian racism that's escalated since covid debuted.

[oakfarm]

Yep I knew the video wouldn’t be to everyone's taste. The thing is that growing up one was influenced by the spirit of the age, that the fall of the Berlin wall had shown the superiority of liberal democracy, that we world would take after us: “Hong Kong will take over China”. I still want to believe things like Nazi-Germernys failur to build an atomic bomb or Soviets failur to catch the computer revoultion proved that democracy is better for scienctific development than dictatorshiops. However now we are always told that the rise of China makes the world take after China.