Oh yes the LKY book is great! In particular, one key aspect for me was the culture difference between west and east. In the western world we have broadly three distinct socio-economic ways of thinking : socialists, conservatives and libertarians. In the East, one of the main school of thoughts is confucianism (where the primary focus is the wellbeing of your family and society), and it is interesting to see how LKY picked several items from each school of thought to unite them in a society that works.
One other key take-away is when he states that democracy is not the cause of progress but its result; and that, in order for democracy to work in a society, you first need a cohesive society and a prosperous middle-class (as an illustration of this, see for instance the various recent failures each time western countries tried to impose “democracy” in other countries…)
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