I agree the craziness of China's society today is because people are lost in a unfamiliar era. The old life style where family and village are at the absolute c

I agree the craziness of China's society today is because people are lost in a unfamiliar era. The old life style where family and village are at the absolute center is gone, but the new structure with comprehensive and strictly enforced law and modern civic code are not in place. People are dumbfounded. Imagine if Europeans were teleported from 600 AD to 1800 AD, bypassing all those Renaissance/Enlightenment years. In China's history the oligarchy/government/emperors were always been regarded as the oppressor, the enemy, the bad guy, by ordinary Chinese. They got power through violence or family line. So people didn't care much, other than paying the painfully exorbitant taxes. For people it's the village leaders/families that actually had intimate ties with them. I think perhaps a better analogy for the world-shattering change facing by today's China might be an isolated tribe being suddenly exposed to modern capitalism/commerce/ideas of freedom/etc., and felt lost, and is searching for ways to go forward, while there are no applicable lessons either from its own history or the hugely different western countries. It's truly remarkable.