[notfromhere]

I never would have imagined someone idealizing third world corruption. Shits corrupt and prevents these places from developing functioning institutions and governance; the first world used to have the same type of arrangement until stable democratic institutions took over. Pretending its some stable existence is a weird idealization of a shitty scenario.

[slededit]

John Mcaffe isn't really idolizing it. His guide is explaining to otherwise hapless western tourists.

Of course since he wrote this he had to return to America to flee a murder investigation so you should take everything he says with a grain of salt.

[selimthegrim]

He's far from the first to do so, although Ashis Nandy had different reasons

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-nandy-affair