I think you should at least open the link and check the video description and comments. Probably it might surprise you.
I’ll do so when I have some spare time. (Last night was a non-starter. I got injured working out so my night was spent mostly whining quietly in my corner. :D)
Harvard study made that very clear, and to every single person I have mentioned it as a response to “haha but gubmint evil CCP bad no freedom”, each of them has acted like a denialist. I always tell them as an asterisk that CPC does not get to fund Harvard, so they should use better arguments to convince me.
As a general rule of thumb, when I see people use “CCP” I map in “ignorant asshole”. It’s kind of … ballsy … to claim expertise in a subject when you can’t even get the name right, after all.
One more question here. Since Russia and other socialist countries also have “authoritarian” governments yet clearly have had a response failure, why is China so different? Socialist countries generally have people in solidarity, so I want to make sense of that.
Rice culture.
No, really. It’s a thing.
When the main crop of the bulk of your society is rice, and has been for thousands of years, cooperation is in your genes and memes. Rice is not a crop you can farm large-scale individually. Using ancient techniques, for a village to even farm enough rice to feed itself (not to mention an excess for use in trade) it takes a lot of cooperative behaviour that is not needed if you’re, say, farming wheat or potatoes or such. Any person not doing their thing kills the whole. Villages that didn’t learn that lesson starved to death and stopped the spread of their genes and their cultural memes. Farming rice turns out to be a powerful vaccination against maladaptive selfishness.
Russia (which is not particularly socialist right now, and maybe never really was) doesn’t have that need to cooperate hammered into its very genetic and memetic structure. Japan and South Korea (neither of which is even remotely socialist) both do. This is why Russia fared pretty pathetically in facing a threat that was society-wide and J/SK fared relatively well.
Better workout properly. It makes me feel bad and go all instructor mode when I hear about injuries, since I practice MMA and have my own home gym.
Bayarea415 (now doxxed) made me understand why CPC was the short hand that will make you not look like a doofus. I liked his videos and commentary a lot. “CCP” usage makes it easy for me to dismiss seriousness of most people as well, just as I can tell anyone who does not know anything natively about India beyond the memes, or all kinds of nuances. Learning about China (and observing HK riots by the day) also gave me extra insights into modern day Western imperialism tactics, since we were a British colony for 2 centuries.
We grow more wheat here in general, however in South states, rice is grown more. Funnily, some Southern states also have Communist parties, whereas rest of India has either liberal or right party rule, and a lot of selfishness also exists among people. So, rice culture sounds familiar, since I have read a bit of Chinese history thanks to Nathan Rich’s Epic China series on YouTube.
Thanks for these long responses though. I think rest of the world needs to be able to hear all this, and acknowledge this stuff. People not getting to hear more perspectives or positive news creates a disconnect between China and rest of the world.
Someday things will change. The current US/Anglosphere hegemon will no longer be the global economic hegemon, however they will still stay the social hegemon, with English language and the general fashion and such stuff. There are a lot of things to work on for the future possible hegemons – China, India, Russia or Africa – and it is just not economic triumph.
Having talked in realtime chats with modern day NatFashes and White Nats from USA, UK, Scotland and elsewhere, I know quite a lot of their tricks. Economic hegemon shift will be just one part of the war.
I’ll do so when I have some spare time. (Last night was a non-starter. I got injured working out so my night was spent mostly whining quietly in my corner. :D)
As a general rule of thumb, when I see people use “CCP” I map in “ignorant asshole”. It’s kind of … ballsy … to claim expertise in a subject when you can’t even get the name right, after all.
Rice culture.
No, really. It’s a thing.
When the main crop of the bulk of your society is rice, and has been for thousands of years, cooperation is in your genes and memes. Rice is not a crop you can farm large-scale individually. Using ancient techniques, for a village to even farm enough rice to feed itself (not to mention an excess for use in trade) it takes a lot of cooperative behaviour that is not needed if you’re, say, farming wheat or potatoes or such. Any person not doing their thing kills the whole. Villages that didn’t learn that lesson starved to death and stopped the spread of their genes and their cultural memes. Farming rice turns out to be a powerful vaccination against maladaptive selfishness.
Russia (which is not particularly socialist right now, and maybe never really was) doesn’t have that need to cooperate hammered into its very genetic and memetic structure. Japan and South Korea (neither of which is even remotely socialist) both do. This is why Russia fared pretty pathetically in facing a threat that was society-wide and J/SK fared relatively well.
Better workout properly. It makes me feel bad and go all instructor mode when I hear about injuries, since I practice MMA and have my own home gym.
Bayarea415 (now doxxed) made me understand why CPC was the short hand that will make you not look like a doofus. I liked his videos and commentary a lot. “CCP” usage makes it easy for me to dismiss seriousness of most people as well, just as I can tell anyone who does not know anything natively about India beyond the memes, or all kinds of nuances. Learning about China (and observing HK riots by the day) also gave me extra insights into modern day Western imperialism tactics, since we were a British colony for 2 centuries.
We grow more wheat here in general, however in South states, rice is grown more. Funnily, some Southern states also have Communist parties, whereas rest of India has either liberal or right party rule, and a lot of selfishness also exists among people. So, rice culture sounds familiar, since I have read a bit of Chinese history thanks to Nathan Rich’s Epic China series on YouTube.
Thanks for these long responses though. I think rest of the world needs to be able to hear all this, and acknowledge this stuff. People not getting to hear more perspectives or positive news creates a disconnect between China and rest of the world.
It was a new motion and I fucked up. *shrug* It happens. Since it was a new motion we went with light weight so the damage was minimal.
Almost as if where by design, right? ;)
Someday things will change. The current US/Anglosphere hegemon will no longer be the global economic hegemon, however they will still stay the social hegemon, with English language and the general fashion and such stuff. There are a lot of things to work on for the future possible hegemons – China, India, Russia or Africa – and it is just not economic triumph.
Having talked in realtime chats with modern day NatFashes and White Nats from USA, UK, Scotland and elsewhere, I know quite a lot of their tricks. Economic hegemon shift will be just one part of the war.