Just look at the Gulf States.

yes - poz makes it harder to develop

the main caveat is if a country is on the front-line of imperial conflict (e.g. Ukraine, Japan etc) then it will be a lot harder cos the two main vectors of pozworld (US media and US govt) are combined whereas in more out of the way places the vector is mostly just US media.

to counteract US media (and also native libertines who seem attracted to media work) what a country needs imo is some form of TV that promotes trad values, by stealth if necessary, especially for young children - by stealth i mean things like making kids cartoons based on mythology or history so things like traditional gender roles can be defended on the grounds of accuracy.

for college age kids just don't fund any cultural Marxist degrees.

imo the key thing is keeping the poz away from children until they reach full maturity (which on average is early 20s imo).

Replies: @Philip Owen

I think it is possible, but it would probably require a regime-led strategy. It may also require a certain type of political system too.

Congresses that meet longer are probably more susceptible to lobbying and subversion.
For this reason, communism may have an increased immunity.

I was just thinking about this striking fact: in the US, Congress didn't meet until 7 months after the sinking of the Lusitania. Definitely, wouldn't happen today. What is the reason for that? Airplanes? A growing swamp of corruption? Or is it just one facilitating the other?

Replies: @Ghak

The source of their wealth was more closely connected to the moral health of the toiling classes.

Christianity as the dominant religion/ideology also meant one's own social status was partly tied to good moral behavior.

Medieval English mobility were totally depraved. So we're their 18th C ancestors. These things seem to go in cycles. When inequality rises, so does elite depravity.

Replies: @dfordoom

I don't follow Spandrell closely, but if I recall correctly, he said some years ago that he runs his own business and that he was getting married. I understood his blog to be some kind of intellectual hobby. Moldbug also had a job, a wife, and at least one kid, and clearly was having an enormous amount of fun writing Unqualified Reservations.

isn’t there a way steer the system towards elite systems that are less harmful in nature compared to Globohomo, as I said, the old Cominterm, feudalism, European style absolute monarchy, and a quasi theocracy run by a Confucian scholar gentry class is preferable to the present neoliberal Globohomo system.
 

And about types of Marxism, some types of Marxism are preferable to others, if that is your only choice, for example, the Soviet geriatric Cominterm run by people like Brezhnev and Andropov, for all of its downsides, is at least still livable, and not not utterly disgusting like the present day Hominterm, and even Karlin pointed this out in the Soviet freezer theory
 

Replies: @Swarthy Greek

Is there theory as to why modern elites might want to spread degeneracy among the masses and the bourgeois and the masses? After all Republican Roman elites were very conservative and spread their conservative Roman values called gravitas among the populace
 

Replies: @4rw

Because a system created by perverts selects for perverts......and it gets entrenched.....

Is there theory as to why modern elites might want to spread degeneracy among the masses and the bourgeois and the masses?
 

Replies: @Thorfinnsson

Is there theory as to why modern elites might want to spread degeneracy among the masses and the bourgeois and the masses?