Cascade said:
That will be good, yes. But let's hope we won't be extremely liberal where people can identify as toothpicks.
or better, why not an honest to god mix of authoritarianism and libertarianism? Something similar to Singapore.
"If all the 300 (top civil servants and political elite) were to crash in one jumbo jet, then Singapore will disintegrate."
~On how Singapore cannot afford the luxury of multiparty politics, 1975. Lee Kuan Yew.
Future Assyria will require a political elite. Etain was right to say that a democratic Assyria will not likely survive in the Middle East.
A political elite can best decide what actually is right assuming they have a sense of reality. Singapore was originally anti-Natalist, favoring lowering the birth rate but then they switched positions to becoming pro-natalist and favored increasing birth rates.
a government is supposed to be the brain of the country, just like a brain, governments regulate according to
Neon, you should definitely read the ideas Lee Kuan Yew had, the guy even saw what kind of religion Islam was...
"I have to speak candidly to be of value, but I do not want to offend the Muslim community... I think we were progressing very nicely until the surge of Islam came, and if you asked me for my observations, the other communities have easier integration ? friends, inter-marriages and so on ? than Muslims... I would say, today, we can integrate all religions and races, except Islam."
from his book 'Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going' (Asia One, March 08 2011 [28])