Browsing the recently showcased items from the magazine of the CFR, Foreign Affairs, I found an article by a former Chinese CCP propaganda official who has broken with Xi and is detailing Xi's sins against the cause, and going even further, apparently has broken ranks even with his former beliefs in official Chinese messaging.
Only one thing can really dislodge such institutional committments: a breakdown in the pyshic capacity to bear cognitive dissonance. Being somehow still dedicated to some principle when the institution is weaving away from the pretension somehow.
I believe that Communist China has always been a puppet state knowtowing to foreign interests. The US at the close of WWII did not support the Nationalist forces, and Western interests decided to put China on the back of the shelf and let it moulder for some decades. The Ford Foundation found some way to get in there and help with population controls, donating money and materials to help reduce the population bomb. This is all consistent with the highest level of thinking/interests in the West.
However, Xi has gone "radical". That means he is being targeted as a problem. Maybe he really is a problem.
But China is not going to be a wallflower at the big dance. I see some intelligent strategy that means the West will actually no longer be manipulating China for any purpose, not "balancing the world powers", not "managing the population", not "globalist socialism/fascism", and no great idyllic managerial scheme.
Xi is "jumping the shark", going for all the marbles. The West will be the poor backward bashful weakling, China will be the 2000-lb behemoth in global dominance.
One thing convinces me that he just might really do it. The Chinese are planning scores of new nuclear power plants. They don't have much coal, they don't want to be dependent. There is not enough copper to do the "Green" solar or green anything. China has the uranium it needs. A nuclear electric China will be competitive with the rest of the world. China is now breaking ranks with the depopulation scheme, and deliberately working on building its population base. Russia did that too. Problem is, after you indoctrinate your people along pure materialistic lines, it's hard to work the love back into the people that would motivate them to want children.
Materialism is intrinsically uncaring, and unprincipled, and inhumane. Material values are "worthless". Because stuff just doesn't bring out a reason to care, a reason to love, or a reason to believe in anything. +
And that is why materialism fails. Under Xi, however, the ideology is not fundamentally "materialism". It glorifies racism and nationalism and loves "Chinese". Russia is also doing this. Love of country is a kind of love of people. Xi pushes Confucian beliefs, Putin pushes Russian Orthodox Christianity. If these trends persist, they'll be actually non-communist and non-Marxist. And anti-globalist.
And they will no longer be the nadir of civilizations, like where we are headed if we persist with our demented agenda wonkery.
Not saying here there is fundamental validity in belief systems except that we need them to be functional in any way.
However, they do not now, nor have any intention of putting human rights up front as their way of life. Xi and Putin are tyrants. No Magna Carta or Constitutional values. If the West wants to stand, we have to go back and put our values back up on the issues of human rights and human liberty. If we do that, we will be stronger, and our system will prevail.
And we need to go nuclear. Electric generation via nuclear energy.
Only one thing can really dislodge such institutional committments: a breakdown in the pyshic capacity to bear cognitive dissonance. Being somehow still dedicated to some principle when the institution is weaving away from the pretension somehow.
I believe that Communist China has always been a puppet state knowtowing to foreign interests. The US at the close of WWII did not support the Nationalist forces, and Western interests decided to put China on the back of the shelf and let it moulder for some decades. The Ford Foundation found some way to get in there and help with population controls, donating money and materials to help reduce the population bomb. This is all consistent with the highest level of thinking/interests in the West.
However, Xi has gone "radical". That means he is being targeted as a problem. Maybe he really is a problem.
But China is not going to be a wallflower at the big dance. I see some intelligent strategy that means the West will actually no longer be manipulating China for any purpose, not "balancing the world powers", not "managing the population", not "globalist socialism/fascism", and no great idyllic managerial scheme.
Xi is "jumping the shark", going for all the marbles. The West will be the poor backward bashful weakling, China will be the 2000-lb behemoth in global dominance.
One thing convinces me that he just might really do it. The Chinese are planning scores of new nuclear power plants. They don't have much coal, they don't want to be dependent. There is not enough copper to do the "Green" solar or green anything. China has the uranium it needs. A nuclear electric China will be competitive with the rest of the world. China is now breaking ranks with the depopulation scheme, and deliberately working on building its population base. Russia did that too. Problem is, after you indoctrinate your people along pure materialistic lines, it's hard to work the love back into the people that would motivate them to want children.
Materialism is intrinsically uncaring, and unprincipled, and inhumane. Material values are "worthless". Because stuff just doesn't bring out a reason to care, a reason to love, or a reason to believe in anything. +
And that is why materialism fails. Under Xi, however, the ideology is not fundamentally "materialism". It glorifies racism and nationalism and loves "Chinese". Russia is also doing this. Love of country is a kind of love of people. Xi pushes Confucian beliefs, Putin pushes Russian Orthodox Christianity. If these trends persist, they'll be actually non-communist and non-Marxist. And anti-globalist.
And they will no longer be the nadir of civilizations, like where we are headed if we persist with our demented agenda wonkery.
Not saying here there is fundamental validity in belief systems except that we need them to be functional in any way.
However, they do not now, nor have any intention of putting human rights up front as their way of life. Xi and Putin are tyrants. No Magna Carta or Constitutional values. If the West wants to stand, we have to go back and put our values back up on the issues of human rights and human liberty. If we do that, we will be stronger, and our system will prevail.
And we need to go nuclear. Electric generation via nuclear energy.
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