The Cape independence movement is South Africa’s best catalyst for political decentralisation, which is in turn a necessary condition for secure liberty.
As decent people we need to respect the dignity, agency, and responsibility of individuals, which must mean that we allow those individuals to falter, to bind themselves to less-than-ideal agreements, and to fail in their endeavours.
Even if you were a committed communist, or a card-carrying member of the Nazi Party, what would you put in a constitution if it was guaranteed that your worst enemy would govern your country (and by extension, you) under it?
How do I reconcile the many needs and demands of others against my own self-interest? Is there a middle ground between selfish capitalism and utopian socialism?
The appropriate way to have dealt with the lack of power supply in South Africa would have been for the price of electricity to rise in a competitive market.
The accusation of Israel being an ‘apartheid state’ is an emotional trick more than anything else, and it distracts unnecessarily from the very real wrong Israel’s government does do and for which it can be taken to task.
Some realpolitik and Machiavellian manoeuvring might be necessary for us to transcend the artificial barrier that has been constructed in the road to a flourishing future.
Building ten private universities with an engrained and transferable cultural ethos is a much stronger safeguard than adopting a law that requires all educational institutions to obey what the state deems the cultural ethos to be.
If you want to know what people think and want, try selling it to them.
Any reasoning that attempts to collectivise individual agents with their own agency, decision-making competence, and divinely guaranteed liberty is bad reasoning.
