Comment by presentation
15 days ago
My point is not that the western world doesn’t do good things. The parent commenter wanted to dismiss nuclear innovation in China as being the result of totalitarianism and oppression rather than ingenuity and innovation, which I think is a bad line of thinking.
It begs the question that if liberalism is incompatible with doing great things, then why commit to it? I don’t believe it is, but falling back on excuses like that just seeds doubt in our true competency.
Pretending like China can’t do good things because of some preconceived notion that they are evil, and failing to admit that China actually is outclassing us in many things and that we can do better, is a great way to let that world order crumble.
> Pretending like China can’t do good things because of some preconceived notion that they are evil, and failing to admit that China actually is outclassing us in many things and that we can do better, is a great way to let that world order crumble.
Fair enough, and it's a line of thinking I agree with you about.
I detest "othering" - be it Westerners who do it about China, or vice versa. We're all psychotic apes so there's no point having a superiority complex based on identity.