The PRC web police are pulling it down as fast as they can but Youtube has a subtitled version of the most subversive cartoon you're likely to see this year. The year of the tiger is ending and the year of the rabbit is coming and Director Wang Bo went deep into the CCP's collective fears to come up with an excellent call to action. It's screechy, ugly, and definitely NSFW (violence and disturbing imagery).
From tainted milk, to spoiled party prince brats running people over in the street with impunity, it encapsulates much of what is wrong with the PRC today. It makes the case that the present system won't make it to the long-term demographic collapse that some have been forecasting but rather that there will be violence and revolution instead long before China can get either rich or old.
China is the worlds oldest civilization. They are old.
ReplyDeleteInteresting prognostications based on a cartoon.
The Chinese raised perhaps a half a billion people from poverty to wealth in a couple of generations. Amazing and unprecedented.
When you have a society that is very censored, you get your signals as you can. I don't know whether the rage shown in the cartoon is something widespread enough to matter but it's certainly a data point that doesn't get tossed around the Sunday talk shows very much.
ReplyDeleteWhen you drop your dependency ratio from 30% working 70% dependent to 60% working 40% dependent by profoundly manipulating the sexuality of a billion people (the one child policy) , you get some real economic side benefits. But the benefits peaked last year and now they are going to pay the piper for the next few decades as their dependency ratios worsen right as their labor cost advantage evaporates. It's going to be interesting times.
Gone into hiding again? The world is changing rapidly and your worldview has no useful referent.
ReplyDeleteMaybe some changes, just because of the facts of course.
Actually I'm overwhelmed with real world catchup. This is a hobby. The Koch brothers somehow never got me my check.
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