Milei was preaching to the converted at Davos or performing perhaps. It will be interesting to see how he moves from performing (which he has excelled at albeit with a clear framework & communication skills not found in most ecnomists & politicians) to governing. Will Argentina continue to be a basketcase or not at the end of his term? I think the probability remains high unless his political skills & good luck exceed his oratorical skills.
I am struggling to think of any developed country that has successfully become an advanced economy while actively promoting religiosity and harking back to a "glorious" past.
Most western democracies went the other way, largely limiting religion to the private or community spheres, and away from.the political and government spheres, as did Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea. Of course, the Petro states are exceptions to this, but it is difficult to compare India with them, since we simply don't have the same natural resources.
In most of Western and Central Europe, some parts of Eastern Europe (the Baltics), Canada, Australia and even South Korea, surveys suggest that a majority of people now do not consider themselves religious. This is somewhat tempered by the more religious recent immigrant community, but is still a clear long term trend. The US is an exception to this trend, where agnosticism/atheism is still less than 20%.
The way I see it, if we allow religiosity and a desire to go back to this past to dominate our social and political consciousness, it is impossible to do this without the obscurantism and the social constructs, casteism being the obvious one, that dominated at the time. It also automatically inculcates a lack of scientific temperament among the public, and is not likely to lead us to path breaking scientific and technology innovations. This all means we are even less likely to advance towards a developed economy.
I know that there is always a first time, but history, in this case, is probably against us.
Milei was preaching to the converted at Davos or performing perhaps. It will be interesting to see how he moves from performing (which he has excelled at albeit with a clear framework & communication skills not found in most ecnomists & politicians) to governing. Will Argentina continue to be a basketcase or not at the end of his term? I think the probability remains high unless his political skills & good luck exceed his oratorical skills.
I am struggling to think of any developed country that has successfully become an advanced economy while actively promoting religiosity and harking back to a "glorious" past.
Most western democracies went the other way, largely limiting religion to the private or community spheres, and away from.the political and government spheres, as did Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea. Of course, the Petro states are exceptions to this, but it is difficult to compare India with them, since we simply don't have the same natural resources.
In most of Western and Central Europe, some parts of Eastern Europe (the Baltics), Canada, Australia and even South Korea, surveys suggest that a majority of people now do not consider themselves religious. This is somewhat tempered by the more religious recent immigrant community, but is still a clear long term trend. The US is an exception to this trend, where agnosticism/atheism is still less than 20%.
The way I see it, if we allow religiosity and a desire to go back to this past to dominate our social and political consciousness, it is impossible to do this without the obscurantism and the social constructs, casteism being the obvious one, that dominated at the time. It also automatically inculcates a lack of scientific temperament among the public, and is not likely to lead us to path breaking scientific and technology innovations. This all means we are even less likely to advance towards a developed economy.
I know that there is always a first time, but history, in this case, is probably against us.