VAMatt on 08 November 2019
| fatslob-:O said: People can decry China for all they want but like it or not they are on progress to represent the beacon of technology whereas the western world is on the brink of being effectively left behind ... China has a society that is intrinsically of higher trust while western social systems have lower trust which is why democracy, rule of law, and privacy are all overrated to them ... There's a very good reason why the CCP have the "Mandate of Heaven" because the people believe that they can restore China to it's former glory ... |
That's all well and good. But, we know objectively that communism, or whatever you want to call their current hybrid-but-still-super-authoritarian system, can't bring about prosperity in the long run. So, there isn't any glory waiting at the end of their 100, or 1000, or 10000 year time horizon. There's just oppression, suffering, and indignity on the way, and at the destination.
