China is not best understood as a communist country, or as fascist. China is modernist. Many western countries were modernist between 1920 and 1960. Now they are postmodernist. Modernists believe that sociology is a field of engineering, postmodernists think it's a moral opinion.
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Arguably, it's much safer to live in a society that has its modernist phase well behind it. But in the pandemic response, we will also observe and compare the different ways in which modernist and postmodernist societies deal with existential threats.
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Is a postmodernist society able to lock down a city? Can it create hospitals in a few days? Can it quickly produce lots of ventilators, CT scanners, protective equipment? Can it train nurses? Can it lift regulations where they get in the way? Or is it just playing theatre?
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do you think using a ideological lense works better than say an economic one or is it just the lense you understand better?
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Ideology is an irrational trance, a tool that is being used to control populations and movements. In modernist societies, ideology is tightly imposed and controlled by the government, in post modernist societies it is growing like weeds in an untended garden.
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