Typhoon wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 11:20 pm True Blue - Hutchinson | Is the West adopting China’s model?
Under Xi Jinping, China has moved away from its previous mixed economy to one in which all major decisions are taken by the state and are subject to the Five-Year Plan. Business leaders must toe the party line, while foreign investment is allowed into the country only on terms that involve ceding most intellectual property to Chinese interests. All media are censored, payment systems are used for a controlling “social credit system” and rebellious spirits are liable to find themselves in a labor camp.
Isn’t this what the rest of the world is converging towards, also?
Technological developments in recent decades have given the state powers it should never have had, and inevitably greedy leftist governments in the West are now abusing them. The universal surveillance of the January 6 riot showed that government’s ability to track people it does not like has skyrocketed.
Look, we in a total new world .. there ZERO privacy , ZERO .. Authorities in West , and , East , they know everything in ones life, at least in life of those who count.
And
The more time passes, that knowledge takes speed .. meaning .. in a generation , the "authorities" will know also the "futures" of individuals, meaning what will happento each individual in next 20 yrs of his/her life, when will get cancer, when will have heart attack, when will have midlife crisis and and.
In that sense talk of free economy , free media, free anything will lose it's meaning .. nothing will be left to be "random" .. everything will be "planned" ..
Western Joe is made to believe things in west "free" .. that the art of foolin Western Joe
Good idea to look @ China to see what's comin
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