From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 15:53:09 MDT
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:25:18AM -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> > All this is all well and good, but before you can work on the
> > culture it first needs to stabilize to something well above the
> > starvation and massive disease level.
>
> This seems to be view of China - freedom of speech, democracy and all
> that are something that can be dealt with after everybody has got a good
> standard of living. Maybe not as much as a crisis zone as Zimbabwe, but
> I think the one step at a time approach is not the right thing to do
> since it is essentially just saying "tomorrow, maybe" and postponing
> reforms indefinitely. Culture and institutions can be shaped *while*
> trying to stabilize the situation - often they are the stuff that helps
> stabilize a crisis region in the first place. Education, pest control
> programs and setting up food distribution networks go hand in hand.
China is about the worst possible example. Doing it that way only
teaches the people that they don't really need that stupid idea called
freedom, that all they need is one big world government running
things....
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