RE: Well....I Will Be Dipped In Shit!
June 12, 2012 at 8:51 pm
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2012 at 9:11 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 11, 2012 at 4:15 am)5thHorseman Wrote: Tribal people and democracy mixes like oil and water. Spreading democracy sounds great, it'd do well in China and other educated countries who care less about tradition. But Iraqis are tribal and regional people.
I would disagree with your take. It seems to me thorugh a number of visits that the Chinese seems to hold the concept of western democracy in bemused contempt. In their conception, good government is self-evidently only possible if the government is by good (ie skilled, learned, as well as moral) people , and good people is by definition not the average people. So to the Chinese, while a good government must be for the people, but it certainly needn't be of the people or by the people.
This notion that good government is government by good people is deep rooted in chinese culture. The only major change is where as once upon a time the Chinese regarded good people as people who are learned in the Confuscian or Taoist classics - ie the mandarines, now the Chinese regard good people as those who can pragmatically solve modern problems - ie engineers.
It's probably no accident that almost all senior officials with executive power in the current communist government in china are trained engineers whose rose up through the technical side of government beauracracy. There are almost no accountant, lawyers and economists in executive positions in chinese central government. This is a government which almost by nature thinks good government is one that gets needed things done, not one that gets side tracked by such fripperies as respecting rights or upholding principles.
Right now, despite western views of the chinese communist government, it seems to majority of the chinese people, the current communist government is a pretty good government.
