Whatever one can say about Putin in Russia, Xi in China, and even Orbán in Hungary, it is clear that at least they have some care about the cultural stability within the societies they each govern. And this is one reason why liberalism cannot stand such actors.
Conclusion
We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings to be fruitful.
They are not men at all. Stepping outside the Tao, they have stepped into the void. Nor are their subjects necessarily unhappy men. They are not men at all: they are artefacts. Man’s final conquest has proved to be the abolition of Man.
- C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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