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"Even more profound is his (Hobbes) influence on how we perceive states today. We respect them and their representatives regardless of whether they are monarchies, aristocracies or democracies. Even after a military coup or civil war, respresentatives of the new government take their seats in the United Nations, and international community looks to them to enforce laws, resolve conflicts, & protect their citizens."
— Feb 09, 2025 06:36PM
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"It isn't that China's state is despotic because it sends its citizens to reeducation camps. It sends people to camps because it can, and it can because it is despotic, unrestrained by- and unaccountable to- society."
— Feb 11, 2025 06:18PM
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Squeezed between the fear & repression wrought by despotic states & the violence & lawlessness that emerges in their abscence, is a narrow corridor to Liberty.
It's in this corridor that state and society balance each other out. This balance is not about a revolutionary moment.
What makes this a corridor, not a door, is that achieving liberty is a process.
What makes this corridor narrow is that this is no easy feat.
— Feb 09, 2025 06:30PM
It's in this corridor that state and society balance each other out. This balance is not about a revolutionary moment.
What makes this a corridor, not a door, is that achieving liberty is a process.
What makes this corridor narrow is that this is no easy feat.
