Patanjali, your disingenuous dumbfuckery is well documented. But using Kante to spew your Islamophobia, on what is obviously a fake post is where you maybe consider shutting the fuck up.
I taught Dutch Disease in my political economy class. My Classical Chinese colleague heard about it and instantly recognised that’s ancient China philosopher Guan Zhong’s (700-645 BC) strategy to trick the neighbour state to abandon agriculture by stimulating non-agricultural demand in trade with them (衡山之谋). Guan Zhong’s thinking was physiocratic in an era of interstate rivalry which meant trade could be cut off and war was frequent. Prudent statesmen should prioritise agriculture and achieve self-sufficiency. I then searched whether Ancient Greece had parallel thinking and found none. After all, in Ancient Greece, free trade was the norm and exploiting your comparative advantage was natural/unavoidable just like 2000s. That may explain why Herodotus didn’t coin a term like “Corinth Disease” for exporting potteries.
Similarly, Dutch Disease was problematicized in 1977 in @TheEconomist by the implicit assumption of “manufacturing primacy” in Cold War + Oil Crisis that comparative advantage in oil/gas is inferior to complex industries due to the former’s fortune was seen as temporary and a windfall. In 2014, The Economist further clarified that Dutch Disease was bad because commodity price fluctuates without caring supply chain security.
This summer-kid globalist explanation lacked Guan Zhong’s deeper point that is rooted in statecraft: if you lose essential industries (agriculture for 650 BC, manufacturing for 2020 AD), your survival is at stake. As we enter an era of deglobalization and reindustrialization, we may want to revise the Dutch Disease’s meaning in the light of Guan Zhong.
In some exciting K-Drama news, I got to interview Park Bo-gum, Lee Sang-yi and Kim So-hyun who star in my current favourite show #GoodBoy, as a part of a global media interaction . Link below!
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@karna_sakthi Mel Gibson deliberately distances himself from any judgement about the Spanish conquest but given his reputation I can see why it could be seen as the arrival of a “good force” from his pov
@karna_sakthi The point he makes is that a large enough civilisation is created on the bones and blood of smaller ones that get subsumed. Even with the conquistadors arriving in the last scene, I have always seen it as the arrival of another group of savages 2/2
@GoibiboSupport I've been trying to reach out to your support but your IVR is the worst. Can someone from your team reach out to me regarding an urgent change in my current booking?
The stands are empty. :) If there was ever an Indian team that deserved to have 100k people applauding them onto the dias, even if to receive silver medals, it was this. What a tragedy that they are followed by fair-weather muppets.