06-22-2021, 06:53 PM
...and to think that some well-placed people in America think that a coup of the sort that took place in "Minna-mar" would solve lots of problems in America. (Yeah, sure. It would be a great time for the body-bag business).
The military-dominated regime of Myanmar practically ensures a failed state even if it has life-and-death power (and in a country as poor as Myanmar, an entity that can decide who eats and who starves has inordinate power). The Burmese military has operated much like an Orwellian regime, literally barracks socialism.
All proponents of free enterprise see barracks socialism wrong for being socialism. Those who believe in a more humanistic view of morals, whatever their economics, see barracks socialism at the least as the wrong sort of socialism. Barracks socialism in Burma/Myanmar has been irresponsible, brutal, and corrupt. See soldiers "helping in the harvest"... they are typically helping themselves to the harvest. That is one form of tax collection. Sending farm kids on furlough back to their families to aid in the critical agricultural season would do far more to aid the peasantry.
The military-dominated regime of Myanmar practically ensures a failed state even if it has life-and-death power (and in a country as poor as Myanmar, an entity that can decide who eats and who starves has inordinate power). The Burmese military has operated much like an Orwellian regime, literally barracks socialism.
All proponents of free enterprise see barracks socialism wrong for being socialism. Those who believe in a more humanistic view of morals, whatever their economics, see barracks socialism at the least as the wrong sort of socialism. Barracks socialism in Burma/Myanmar has been irresponsible, brutal, and corrupt. See soldiers "helping in the harvest"... they are typically helping themselves to the harvest. That is one form of tax collection. Sending farm kids on furlough back to their families to aid in the critical agricultural season would do far more to aid the peasantry.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
