prc30 on Nostr: The ability to critically think on the subject of #China is no longer present. It is ...

The ability to critically think on the subject of #China is no longer present. It is a highly emotive subject matter and one where biases exist and seek to be confirmed. Irony, though, is clearly not to be recognized as part of any such debate. Case in point; virtually everyone I speak with quickly stresses how China operates an increasingly centralised monitoring and control apparatus where all activities fall under the watchful eye of the CCP. This is very much a fact and actually has been for a long while. The difference today is simply that the digital world has made the process far more invasive and easier to execute on.

But here is what is never considered. You see, the average Chinese citizen is very well aware of the current environment. As noted above, it is nothing new. The system is in place and the citizenry know that their garden is well and truly walled. This then brings us to the need to address (mixing metaphors) the ironic elephant in the room.

Have these very same people asking me this question come to the realisation that the same walled garden exists in both American and Europe? You should see the reactions when I ask that question. Pure disdain. As an aside, this is normally were I am ad hominem attacked and called a “panda hugger”. Carrying on, clearly other jurisdictions are nowhere near (yet) the same dystopian level as China, but State “oversight” among these liberal democracies is no longer in doubt. Here’s the critical difference. Unlike their Chinese counterpart, the average American blithely chooses cognitive dissonance.

What is more frightening? Knowing openly the truth and working to navigate that system OR believing that a system operates one way when, in reality, that belief system couldn’t be further from the truth?

Either way, freedom tech for the win ODELL (npub1qny…95gx)