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This is not a new situation. I grew up in a more liberal part of China and always thought their political situation was their bottleneck for economic, cultural
by 627467 9y ago
This is not a new situation. I grew up in a more liberal part of China and always thought their political situation was their bottleneck for economic, cultural and human development. The state of the world right now shows how I was wrong.
And as you mentioned, tightening of control by different governments around the world seems to indicate that we have found a common trend and its not the liberal one...
- pishpash 9y agoThere will be a bottleneck. It took hundreds of years of sea ban for Ming China to fall behind in the Age of Sail; it might take a few decades for a closed society to euthanize itself in a digital age built on free exchange and open discourse.
- 627467 9y agoBut thats not the direction communist china has been taking. It has been opening more and more since the 70s
- chaostheory 9y agoYes, it’s been that way until now. That was my point.