We live in insane times. It seems that every national leader has asked themselves, "What can I do that will really, really screw up the country I govern?" and then gone ahead and done it.
It's remarkable and distressing how little the CPC's policy elite have learned from their mistakes. They appear to be crackpot realists. They lurch from one catastrophe to another in a process that only ends in conflagration.
"Zero COVID makes “lying flat” increasingly attractive," therefore, UBI. And if you don't take the lethal injection, no UBI
Hegel got it right re China.
We live in insane times. It seems that every national leader has asked themselves, "What can I do that will really, really screw up the country I govern?" and then gone ahead and done it.
The folks who think they are in charge not only don't know what they're doing, they don't even know that they don't know what they are doing
Couldn't have put it better myself. They are blinded by their arrogance.
It's remarkable and distressing how little the CPC's policy elite have learned from their mistakes. They appear to be crackpot realists. They lurch from one catastrophe to another in a process that only ends in conflagration.
Thanks for your balanced coverage of this.