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Open Societies versus Autocratic Experiments or Why the Latter are Parasitic, Cannibalizing and Self-Limiting.
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Cadmus . Jun2021, Vol. 4 Issue 4, p216-225. 10p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Events over the past decade revealed a new systems clash: Open Societies versus digital autocracies which are competing to provide better solutions to tackle climate change and pandemics, overcome poverty, and offer reasonable jobs. However, which is doing a better job? The text argues that the current autocratic experiments are flourishing based on the preconditions that they cannot generate independently: Price allocation in free competitive markets; a rigorous debate on facts in an interdisciplinary scientific discourse; free public speech and a free, critical, investigative press; a creative, pluralistic cultural scene; and the building of social capital based on interpersonally generated trust and reciprocal tolerance. These conditions all draw on a human- and person-centred approach and are superior to any attempt to regulate society through a collective, non-democratic top-down process. Autocracies depend on Open Societies and must import relevant information generated only in Open Societies, and thus remain self-limiting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20385242
- Volume :
- 4
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Cadmus
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 151297617