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Not to say that they're by any means perfect, but I think what you've pointed out might help explain why many Americans i grew up around see the Chinese governm
by ixtli 9y ago
Not to say that they're by any means perfect, but I think what you've pointed out might help explain why many Americans i grew up around see the Chinese government as some sinister and inscrutable entity that is out to silently crush everyone. Also, you don't need to make up fake examples when you can look up anything in the past year about how they're making big strides towards reversing their smog problems and how that's somehow an attack on American industry. Even trump has made these claims ( https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/uDFmIDPzCo4znxgzKlT0_jgv4CqHkarUrQ005ED_HbclD4Ex32hmOHsAn95kbFc_WZMiOQ1BMlRj4Fu-vDLyOgnT3syuxfWFY8KxoEWpqd9gxcPzZnQUM8q76jkJzs7IQUNr_cUt https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/uDFmIDPzCo4znxgzKlT0_jgv4C... )
- specialist 9y agoYounger me was a news junkie. Iran hostage crisis, USSR was gonna nuke us, Japan was going to buy us, etc. Of course, I believed it all. Over time, I noticed shit just didn’t add up. And no one did a mea culpa. So I just stopped listening. I figure all ad supported news media is ghouls profiting from human misery, stoking fear and anxiety to keep people numb, allowing the real outrages to happen unnoticed. (eg Project Censored) I hope China continues to do well. Ditto everyone. We all do better when we all do better.
- RealityVoid 9y agoThat sounds a little bit like survivor bias to me. Nothing bad happened to the US, but in other countries shit went down in the last century, stuff that if you were not informed and aware about, might lead you to... for example go to school in the morning and realise you can't go back home since you're on the other side of a new border.
- specialist 9y agoBeen chewing on your reply. Plenty bad happened in North America. Project Censored is a good starting place, if you want to raise your blood pressure. I still seek news. Mostly from HN, Democracy Now, Vox, misc. It’s just that now I consciously block any source that I feel is more noise than signal.
- dmos62 9y agoNoam Chomsky pointed out that, for the last century, US has been the most secure country, but its people are the most insecure.
- ixtli 9y agoYeah I see what you're talking about, though I would add that there's a whole sub culture in the news about pointing out bad takes from among the fourth estate. It all seems to depend on where you "hang out" so to speak.