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===Tianxia=== | ===Tianxia=== | ||
====Dev notes==== | |||
This easily gets "scope creeping", because quite complex. '''Note to self: try to "cool down".''' | |||
'''And how much compact can I display the complex of Tianxia itself to not bore everyone?''' | |||
=====Eisenhower===== | |||
* military-industrial complex | |||
* budget spending | |||
* destruction of nature | |||
* Is the warning of a scientific elite in any way relevant? (Fear of sci lobby / technocracy?) | |||
Feng/Pensatore crediting him "in a way he was prophetic"? | |||
Research: | |||
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_address | |||
** full speech | |||
* other speeches | |||
=====Chinese system: efficiency vs. awkward costs===== | |||
Religion: | |||
* Chinese perspective on religion especially in the Western world? | |||
** Either fueling tendency to believe in conspiracy theories or it is simply nearly obsolete for financially secured/well situated, intellectual people. Together with "cult to consume" it drives decay of values. | |||
** As consequence religion is seen as a factor of disturbance? | |||
Research: | |||
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_China | |||
National unity: | |||
* missing trust about the individual intellect | |||
** one-party system as consequence (of Xi's Mao trauma?) | |||
** social framing | |||
** strong state, police forces, face of state, zero-tolerance against deliquents and critic | |||
=====Racism===== | |||
Racism topics per se are tedious and don't feel much relevant for a story that aims for scifi. Maybe limit this to "pretextual arguments", as proof of Western failure from the Chinese perspective / propaganda? | |||
=====Chinese perspective on individual freedom===== | |||
* Conflict between Western and Asian thinking (basically individual vs. community?) | |||
* Feng: | |||
** "Of what good is Western culture if it allows for freedom to believe every nonsense." | |||
** "Western '''cult''' of the individual and its unlimited, unchecked development damages the mental unity of communities." | |||
** "The West schizophrenically accepts hugh numbers of dead in order to guarantee personal freedom and human rights." | |||
*** (China's perspective) http://german.china.org.cn/txt/2021-02/07/content_77197853.htm | |||
Research: | |||
* https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menschenrechte_in_der_Volksrepublik_China | |||
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China#Western_human_rights | |||
=====Gedankenexperiment: "The raw compromise"===== | |||
Feng and Pensatore: | |||
* China vs. the West: acknowledgement, true understanding of each other, forgiving and healing possible? | |||
* "If Western systems are too liberal and the Chinese system too totalitarian then what else can be the solution?" | |||
* visible problems of democracy fixable by AI and other instruments? | |||
=====Conspiracy myths===== | |||
Chinese model: more robust to conspiracy myths because of controlled media and framing? | |||
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