Comments on: Seasteading and Charter Cities http://athousandnations.com/2009/08/10/seasteading-and-charter-cities/ Towards a Cambrian Explosion in Government Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:14:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Nauru Recognizes Abkhazia: Commoditizing Sovereignty « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom http://athousandnations.com/2009/08/10/seasteading-and-charter-cities/#comment-1194 Nauru Recognizes Abkhazia: Commoditizing Sovereignty « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:01:26 +0000 http://athousandnations.com/?p=555#comment-1194 [...] suggests another difference between seasteading and charter cities – seasteading will most likely seek partnerships with small countries, while charter cities [...] [...] suggests another difference between seasteading and charter cities – seasteading will most likely seek partnerships with small countries, while charter cities [...]

]]> By: James A. Donald http://athousandnations.com/2009/08/10/seasteading-and-charter-cities/#comment-753 James A. Donald Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:02:08 +0000 http://athousandnations.com/?p=555#comment-753 <blockquote>"Charter Cities can be thought of as a way to bring the current best practices in governance to places that currently have vastly inferior governance technology. "</blockquote> This has been tried, for example innumerable interventions in Haiti, the recent assimilation of East Germany by West Germany, and so forth. It is apparent that such efforts tend to export what has recently gone wrong with our society, rather than what is right with our society. Mencius Moldbug points out the tremendous success of classic colonialism in bringing liberty, prosperity, personal security, and trains that run on time to the colonized - and the ruinous failure of modern colonialism, indicating that modern colonialists have a very poor grasp of what are the differences that make a difference. If the US invades Haiti yet again, this time under Obama, then this time around we will probably raise the minimum wage to seven dollars an hour and give them midnight basketball and single payer health care.

“Charter Cities can be thought of as a way to bring the current best practices in governance to places that currently have vastly inferior governance technology. “

This has been tried, for example innumerable interventions in Haiti, the recent assimilation of East Germany by West Germany, and so forth. It is apparent that such efforts tend to export what has recently gone wrong with our society, rather than what is right with our society. Mencius Moldbug points out the tremendous success of classic colonialism in bringing liberty, prosperity, personal security, and trains that run on time to the colonized – and the ruinous failure of modern colonialism, indicating that modern colonialists have a very poor grasp of what are the differences that make a difference.

If the US invades Haiti yet again, this time under Obama, then this time around we will probably raise the minimum wage to seven dollars an hour and give them midnight basketball and single payer health care.

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