I think we're all going to learn the hard way that collectivist cultures (e.g. East Asian cultures) deal will existential threats with a lot more organisation & efficiency than individualist cultures.
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Interesting observation
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Joscha’s comment brings back several memories of that mentality in the 50’s and early 60’s. After all they had just won a war because of it. Remember them worrying about Baby Boomers (my gen) not being able to do likewise. Today, I understand that worry!
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We're all Soviets now. We don't read the newspaper and ask, why did that happen? What should be done? We read the newspapers and ask, why do they want us to believe that happened? What are they going to do to us next?
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this is correct. The US, being postmodernist and globalist. is not so much individualist as it is tribal. Identity groups compete for resources for their own people, not for the good of the country. The US was far more homogeneous in the 1950s and thus, more efficient
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And South Korea?
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I would call us ultra-liberal (or ultra-individualist), as opposed to postmodern. There is something very un-postmodern about the absolute belief in individual rights.
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Very accurate, 1940s & ‘50s America much more in lock step formation. Started splintering apart in the 60’s
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At the apex of global economic Americana, 1950’s, America more internally unified. China may undergo their own internal Balkanization after this mammoth boom.
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