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Some heresies: - React is bad and bloated. - Startup industry is exploiting idealistic young people, as slaves of VC/venture partner "bet placers" with the pr

Some heresies: - React is bad and bloated. - Startup industry is exploiting idealistic young people, as slaves of VC/venture partner "bet placers" with the promises of often unrealizable rewards, by promoting startup mythology, as lab rats most of whom will end up failed experiments. - China is not bad and should be supported, and the West can learn much from it, if the West could set aside its insecurity and pomp and see clearly.

_Microft 7y ago
There is a difference between being heretical and being impolite, insulting or deliberately provocative. It is not only what you say but also how you say it. This being said, how do you expect to receive anything but backlash with a conditional clause like in your last sentence ("if the West could set aside its insecurity and pomp and see clearly."). That's not heresy, it's deliberate edgy-ness. Beside that I believe that 'the West' could learn some things from China because I believe that it is not all bad. Claiming that China is not bad in light of the China Cables is pretty bold, though.
- jessaustin 7y ago
  ...deliberate edgy-ness... Strong disagree, from this Westerner. There is ample evidence of both insecurity and pomp anywhere one looks, in USA and in popular Western media.
- slowenough 7y ago
  Maybe you're just jealous then. So go to China, don't blame me.
buboard 7y ago
Burn him
- slowenough 7y ago
  He he. Well, at least the heresies were actual heresies. They were so effective that a whole subthread starting with a guy who asked me to say what I think is good about China, had to be detached because it descended into trolling and China bashing. Surprise, surprised. I think we've identified a pretty good heresy. The problem is heresies stop people seeing beyond them. So they don't see the useful new ideas, because they are blinded by the "2 minutes hate" the heresy triggers.

_Microft 7y ago

There is a difference between being heretical and being impolite, insulting or deliberately provocative. It is not only what you say but also how you say it. This being said, how do you expect to receive anything but backlash with a conditional clause like in your last sentence ("if the West could set aside its insecurity and pomp and see clearly."). That's not heresy, it's deliberate edgy-ness. Beside that I believe that 'the West' could learn some things from China because I believe that it is not all bad. Claiming that China is not bad in light of the China Cables is pretty bold, though.

jessaustin 7y ago
...deliberate edgy-ness... Strong disagree, from this Westerner. There is ample evidence of both insecurity and pomp anywhere one looks, in USA and in popular Western media.
slowenough 7y ago
Maybe you're just jealous then. So go to China, don't blame me.

buboard 7y ago

Burn him

slowenough 7y ago
He he. Well, at least the heresies were actual heresies. They were so effective that a whole subthread starting with a guy who asked me to say what I think is good about China, had to be detached because it descended into trolling and China bashing. Surprise, surprised. I think we've identified a pretty good heresy. The problem is heresies stop people seeing beyond them. So they don't see the useful new ideas, because they are blinded by the "2 minutes hate" the heresy triggers.