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Maybe the primacy of individualism/freedoms as the only path to collective prosperity? Like, what if the Chinese model really is the best way to run a country (
by CptFribble 8y ago
Maybe the primacy of individualism/freedoms as the only path to collective prosperity? Like, what if the Chinese model really is the best way to run a country (not an endorsement, btw)?
Not "taboo," persay, but it's something thing that's not really seriously considered by most westerners (not the ones I know, at least).
- forkLding 8y agoThen you might like Han Song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Song_(writer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Song_(writer)
- mac01021 8y agoAny of his works in particular? (Sadly, it looks from the wikipedia article like I'm not likely to find an english translation for most of his work)
- andrenth 8y agoBut collectivism is widely popular in the west, no?
- int_19h 8y agoTo some extent - but it is also explicitly contrasted with individual freedoms (presented as a good thing), and limitations on those freedoms have to be justified and rationalized in far more detail than "social harmony".
- xioxox 8y agoYou could read Ken MacLeod or Iain M. Banks to get some Western views on that.