Wednesday, October 02, 2019

pervasive sense of national humiliation the seed for dictatorship

pervasive sense of national humiliation

Germany
China
India
Pakistan



In his secret letter, Hayward wrote, "I am personally convinced as far as internal conditions are concerned, the new regime has definitely come to Stay for the foreseeable future." As shocking as that view was, he went even further by stating this was not necessarily a bad thing. "The law is now respected, which it never was before," he wrote. Previously, "it was only necessary to know an official to dodge every law ever passed. Taxes are paid by all, and paid at the right time. No shopkeeper dares not write an invoice, or write a false one. Even bus and train tickets are sold on a scrupulously fair System, which prevent.s anyone, even government officials, taking precedence, or getting reduced rates. The antidote to social weakness and general chaos, it turns Out, good old-fashioned totalitarian rule. ' 'Where trustworthiness is as scarce as it is in China," wrote Townsend in the 1930s, is probably better to have a government highly centralized, requiring as few authoritative individuals as possible, in order to utilize most effectively the limited amount of honesty available. " Westerners today are quick to denounce Beijing's absolutist policies, but the Chinese people largely recognize the cause-and-effect relationship between iron-fistedness and social order.


Do you see  similarities with India?

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