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Stay paradisiacal.
Tom
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Years ago my then English teacher, Willem van der Walt, posited that the best form of government was a benign autocracy. Putting aside the seeming contradiction in the term, is such a government even remotely possible? And could it be a way forward in today’s chaotic world?