@Outsideness I'd love to see your explanation for why China can't make decent jet engines.
@tcjfs I don't think it matters; America doesn't seem to be acting with intentionality towards *anything*.
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate @menangahela
Only six decades ago the Chinese were eating their own babies in the nadir of human social possibility to date. Give it time. ...
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... Not even much time.
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Replying to @Outsideness @menangahela
Hmm? If they're so smart, why weren't they successful earlier?
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate @menangahela
They were, episodically. But the Malthusian trap is a bitch. ...
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... Then, excess conformism proved sub-optimal for Capital sorcery, and the Century of Humiliation drove them nuts.
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Replying to @Outsideness @menangahela
Excess conformism? You mean a government without external threats suppressing change and becoming increasingly corrupt? You probably think the Roman Empire collapsed because it was attacked by barbarians too...
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Every pre-modern society sought to keep Autonomizing Capital Dynamics locked in a box. China was competent enough to do so.
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