If you went to US schools, a good framework for thinking about Xi Jinping Thought is D.A.R.E or Christian youth camps. Their main practical achievement is teaching kids to endure extreme boredom, hide their true opinions, and take a cynical view of adults in authority.https://twitter.com/TangAnZhu/status/1432621292339937282 …
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Where Xi Jinping Thought turns from tedious to dangerous is where it connects with a sense of resentful nationalism and national grievance, also inculcated in school, which is the one part of the CCP agenda that has a real emotional resonance with large numbers of Chinese people.
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Another way to think about Xi Jinping Thought is Star Wars. Communism is the Star Wars universe, it's almost impossible to imagine or describe it in a way that young people don't find exciting. But Xi is George Lucas, he finds a way. And now studying Jar Jar Thought is obligatory
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What that breeds long run is people who believe social norms don't actually matter and power relationships are the only thing that matter
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