Javier Milei has made some valid and crowd-arousing points, but his views are not water-tight. The “hockey stick GDP growth” that Milei mentioned is not simply a result of capitalism. Technological advances is a major factor. But there are other contributors: burning our inheritance and borrowing from the future generations; fiat money helps. We burn a large amount of fossil fuels. Governments are carrying huge debts.
Thanks Simon 🙏🏻
我覺得依篇如果同戈爾巴喬夫1991年下台時嘅演說比較, 十分有趣
真係好正， 要聽多次
Javier Milei has made some valid and crowd-arousing points, but his views are not water-tight. The “hockey stick GDP growth” that Milei mentioned is not simply a result of capitalism. Technological advances is a major factor. But there are other contributors: burning our inheritance and borrowing from the future generations; fiat money helps. We burn a large amount of fossil fuels. Governments are carrying huge debts.
Thanks a lot, 今日下午一路做嘢一路聽，唔係好concentrate 只好重聽，重聽又重聽，結果聽咗可能有十次，好正，佢好有誠意，說得真好👍一陣喺地鐵再聽多次😅曾經聽人話佢怪雞，原來只係唔了解佢😊阿根廷今次選對了，真好😊
返到屋企，同老公聽多次😹
極左影響自由經濟，另外，他好像同習主席講，唔好走回頭路，嗰條係死路嚟㗎。
其實自由主義可唔可以理解為無為而治？
我聽過個講法係「為無為」，即係「無為」本身其實都係有主動嘅成份，包括主動咁去明白到世界好大，好複雜，唔係任何一個人類能夠明白得晒成個宇宙嘅運作等等。
好多朋友尤其識少少中國文化嘅洋人都好奇，明明古典嘅道家思想已經睇到咁豁達，點解自由主義好似絕跡東亞文化圈。其實去到漢代，道家就畀啲賣藥嘅合流，透過幫人醫病、改運傳教，同時走入群眾。上流社會，見諸於魏晉班有錢人權貴，就玩 psychedelics （都係藥）。呢班人其實識啲嘢㗎，結論就係 YOLO，唔好畀俗務纏身，其實幾 chill。
同期又有一支，同當時傳入嘅佛教搓埋，成為禪宗。
道又好、佛又好，其實都博大精深，好可惜就係對當時嘅廣大群眾，唔識字嘅，就只有推銷啲九唔搭八嘅心靈服務，醫病改運。
對上流社會，道佛兩派學問觀點，又不及儒家思想咁實用。最終，又係政治需要凌駕咗知識嘅追求，好切合呢個文化體系嘅根性。
但如果你睇西方嘅文化體系發展，其實到啟蒙時代之前，其實都類似係咁。
不過去到中古時代後期，漸漸出現返主日學呢回事；其中一個 hypothesis 係當時唔同嘅語言之間嘅競爭開始明顯，教會要維持自己基本盤，多少都要教啲信眾識字，唱吓歌，念吓經。後來加埋印刷術，呢個轉捩點之後，西方社會忽然多咗好多哲學家，思想體系忽然變得精彩。
以上呢個演變過程好緩慢；但我有個好跳躍嘅結論係，保育唔同嘅語言，係對一個文化體系嘅未來至關重要。如果真係想咩偉大民族復興，首先就係要呢個文化體系之下唔同嘅語系競爭。偏偏大一統嘅思維，正正同呢個百家爭鳴嘅諗法背道而馳。
《道德經》真係好正。
大一統本身都係集體主義一種，不過岩岩都諗，無論遠古中國或者近代歐洲都合久必分，分久必合，就算如阿根廷現況都係，所以大一統思維本身係咪都係自然狀況下出現的產物？
其實統治一樣有 economies of scale；唔係每個 institution 嘅 fixed cost 都一樣，所以有啲小國會 outsource 呢啲 institutions 。舉個例，common law 就係小國可以 take advantage 嘅一個 open source 嘅 institution 。另一個當然就係貨幣。
我唔敢講 concentration of powers 係一種純粹自然嘅產物，但最終都係同文化以及經濟關係有好大嘅關聯。例如 common law ，理論上你唔用英文，都幾難 capture 到啲案例入面嘅 nuance 。至於貨幣，亦都好視乎貿易上嘅關係。
所以，一個文化上「自成一格」嘅體系，好多時又會有自己一套嘅政治同法律制度。貿易關係多啲嘅經濟，又容易啲用同一隻貨幣。
呢個阿根廷總統有料到喎。
最後一段幾正，我讀嘅時候都有啲感動。