Some of my Australian friends bemoan that nationalism doesn't really seem to have legs in Australian politics. I have my suspicions as to why that's the case.
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And I suspect that many, high and low alike, have done the math, seen the dismal probability of any kind of acceptable outcome from attempting to be an independent nation and decided their best chances lie in trying to get the best out of going with the flow of big power shifts.
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Thinking on this a little more, it might seem like I'm all doom and gloom here. I do believe there is some hope. I'm personally of the belief that the most plausible good outcome lies in Christianising the Chinese.
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The big problems with the Chinese right now are their low trust, highly ethnocentric nature, combined with the ruthless Machiavellian tendencies engendered by the legalism that has been the dominant Chinese ideology for over a millennia. Christianity can fix all that.
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While I'm aware Christianity enjoys a poor reputation in China right now (due in large part to the heretical Taping rebellion) it's still catching on among some sections of the Chinese population in a way that's benign enough to avoid the hammer of the state crushing it.
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The thing is, if the Chinese pragmatism and ruthlessness is tempered with Christian compassion, it could create a society that's high performance, practical and high enough in trust to be relatively pleasant to live in.
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And frankly, I fancy the chances of survival and success in evangelisation over warfare.
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For better or for worse NZ would have our backs, if only because they'd be next.
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I agree. Australians don’t cherish FREEDOM the way Americans do, it’s not something ppl ever really even think about. And our “intellectuals” all fucked off to London as soon as they could, always mocked Oz as parochial.
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