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China obviously takes ideology very seriously.
What if there are real, high intellectual grade alternatives to liberalism? America doesnt take the possibility seriously, and thus underestimates China's threat, and overestimates our own position. https://twitter.com/SamoBurja/status/1278675672706117636
What if there are real, high intellectual grade alternatives to liberalism? America doesnt take the possibility seriously, and thus underestimates China's threat, and overestimates our own position. https://twitter.com/SamoBurja/status/1278675672706117636
We need to take ideology more seriously. It isnt just window dressing, and it isnt just unquestionable moral axioms. Its the core strategic and structural paradigm of your society. There are better and worse ideologies, not just morally, but in civilizational performance.
In 1600, you could get away with writing off science as just another religious worldview. But by 1900, you lived under the dominion of a scientific power, because science was a more productive worldview.
What if the same is true in political worldviews? The CCP believes it is.
What if the same is true in political worldviews? The CCP believes it is.
CCP sees communism not just as ideology, but as secret weapon like science was.
"What powerful secret do you believe that no one else believes?"
China: history is governed by discernable laws, and the Party's job is to discern them and lead society accordingly.
"What powerful secret do you believe that no one else believes?"
China: history is governed by discernable laws, and the Party's job is to discern them and lead society accordingly.
If we dont want to be ruled from Beijing in a generation or two, and we see what that looks like with the Uyghurs, then we need to get up to speed on the importance of ideology, not just as moral valence, but as engineering science.
This is why Palladium engages with China.
This is why Palladium engages with China.
We sent people on the ground to see what things are really like on the ground.
Xinjiang's surviellance state: https://palladiummag.com/2018/11/29/a-week-in-xinjiangs-absolute-surveillance-state/
Xinjiang's surviellance state: https://palladiummag.com/2018/11/29/a-week-in-xinjiangs-absolute-surveillance-state/
In Wuhan (pre-COVID) things were looking great, which isnt necessarily comforting for the West. Again, what if this is the result of a different, and superior, ideology? https://palladiummag.com/2019/10/11/the-american-dream-is-alive-in-china/
On the intellectual front, we looked at part of their intellectual discourse, which is weaving Confucious into their ideology and dreaming of world empire: https://palladiummag.com/2019/09/26/the-universal-ambitions-of-chinas-illiberal-confucian-scholars/
Messed up threading. Continue here: https://twitter.com/palladiummag/status/1278749281323585536?s=19
