r/Morocco • u/PsychologicalGoal324 • 15h ago
Discussion How Morocco Stays Stable While Other Countries Collapse
I have this weird theory/idea that came to me while I was literally sitting alone at home
Imagine you have one cow that you depend on for almost everything: food, milk, money, your family’s livelihood, even companionship. You’ve had it for years, you know it, you’re used to it, and you’ve basically built part of your life around it.
Even if you eventually own a whole barn full of cows, you probably wouldn’t just get rid of that first cow. Maybe it’s not the most profitable one anymore, but it has something the others don’t: history, familiarity, and accumulated value.
And even if you start experimenting with different ways of feeding it, treating it, raising it, etc., you still have an interest in keeping it alive.
Then I started thinking:
What if Morocco is that cow?
Morocco has a strategic location, natural resources, access to the Atlantic and Mediterranean, proximity to Europe, connections with Africa and the Arab world, tourism, agriculture, etc. Yet sometimes it feels like we act as if we have nothing and everything has to come from somewhere else.
And then I wondered:
Why has Morocco, compared with many other African countries, remained relatively stable despite everything happening around it?
Could part of the explanation simply be that Morocco’s stability is also valuable to other countries, so different actors have an interest in keeping that stability?
And maybe Morocco is also something of a “laboratory” where different foreign investments, economic models, technologies and ideas are tested or introduced.
I’m not saying this is true or that there’s some grand conspiracy. It’s just a thought experiment.
Does this analogy make any sense, or did I just spend too much time alone at home thinking about cows?