Friday, June 25, 2021
LIBERAL ECONOMISTS' PIKETTY ET AL PAX MONGOLICA
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
RE PAX MONGOLICA ENLIGHTENED MONGOL DESPOTS ECONOMISTS' FANTASY PAX SINICA
If you read Power And Plenty, and other similar accounts of the so called Pax Mongolica, you get the impression of benevolent enlightened helpful friendly Mongol Khans, the kind of people that the Chinese now ostensibly are becoming, joining the commonwealth of enlightened nations in a spirit of hope and global unity. They want to make The South China Sea, and elsewhere in Asia, Eurasia, and Africa, safe for all of us to trade freely and openly. Call it The Pax Sinica.
"...The Whig historian thinks that the course of history, the passage of centuries, can give judgment on a man or an age or a movement. In reality there is only one thing that history can say on this matter...it is, that provided disaster is not utterly irretrievable-- provided a generation is not destroyed or a state wiped entirely from the map--there is no sin or error or calamity can take place but succeeding generations will make the best of it...." Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation, p.88.
If you read Power And Plenty, and other similar accounts of the so called Pax Mongolica, you get the impression of benevolent enlightened helpful friendly Mongol Khans, the kind of people that the Chinese now ostensibly are becoming, joining the commonwealth of enlightened nations in a spirit of hope and global unity. They want to make The South China Sea, and elsewhere in Asia, Eurasia, and Africa, safe for all of us to trade freely and openly. Call it The Pax Sinica.
"...The Whig historian thinks that the course of history, the passage of centuries, can give judgment on a man or an age or a movement. In reality there is only one thing that history can say on this matter...it is, that provided disaster is not utterly irretrievable-- provided a generation is not destroyed or a state wiped entirely from the map--there is no sin or error or calamity can take place but succeeding generations will make the best of it...." Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation, p.88.
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