Lee Kuan Yew
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Lee Kuan Yew is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between July 05, 2021 and December 07, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Lots of charter cities want to be Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore”; “I myself am a fan of Lee Kuan Yew”; “benevolent dictators like Lee Kuan Yew and Park Chung-hee led their countries to peace and prosperity”. It most often appears alongside Congress, Dubai, Europe.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: July 05, 2021
- Last seen: December 07, 2023
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- Congress (2 shared issues)
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- Dubai (2 shared issues)
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- Europe (2 shared issues)
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- European Union (2 shared issues)
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- Park Chung-Hee (2 shared issues)
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- Trump (2 shared issues)
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- World Bank (2 shared issues)
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- 1700s (1 shared issues)
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- 1950s (1 shared issues)
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- 4chan (1 shared issues)
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- accelerationism (1 shared issues)
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- Age of Trump (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Lots of charter cities want to be Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore. But could a charter city be Park Chung-Hee’s Korea? Sounds like a harder problem, especially since it won’t be immediately profitable (and in fact will be actively less profitable than doing other things in the short-term). Still, it might turn out that that’s what you need if you want to end poverty at scale.
You can like a dictator’s policies without necessarily admiring his dictatorship. I myself am a fan of Lee Kuan Yew, not always the most liberal guy. Still, it’s not really obvious what positive lessons one could learn from the policies of Orban’s Hungary. Is there something he’s doing that proves that being conservative works, or is better than expected?
Charter Cities: This is maybe closest to the original spirit of neoreaction. Reactionaries noticed that many developing countries, when given a democratic choice, picked warlords who promised revenge on their ethnic enemies, or socialists eager to expropriate the property of anyone trying to start a useful industry. Meanwhile, benevolent dictators like Lee Kuan Yew and Park Chung-hee led their countries to peace and prosperity.
In one of his few clear and serious posts, Yarvin suggested that the world be split up into small parcels, each with its own dictator, and hopefully competition among dictators would force them to make their parcel a nice place to live, Lee Kuan Yew style. He never explained how this interacted with his King of America plan, or what happened if the dictators were evil, or how this related to the real world (where we will not do this).