This destruction was necessary to become strong. A country of ignorant peasant embodying the Tao Te Ching has little shadow to project to defend itself against outside projected shadow.
Weak yang creates exploitable yin. E.g. the “asian bride” trope. This has some other manifestations in popular culture:
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Weak yang often requires something else as a cope. More money, bigger car/house/brain, etc...
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American born chinese often try to distance themselves from direct chinese culture while still being part of the sub-culture that revolves around generic asian-ness like boba tea and ironic academic success.
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Girls/women do this especially as the disgust reaction towards weak yang is more instinctive and less mediated by professional protocol. Also helps distance from the ‘trophy wife’ trope. “o u must be starving for big dick”
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This aversion to weak men is in conflict w/ love for their fathers whose methods of protection are “wear a sweater, don’t date till your 30, get a phd, become a doctor, etc...” (basically raising daughters as sons by repressing the feminine)
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The downside to hyper pragmatism is that is ignores gender differences. The balance of yin/yang energies is important not because it generates survival fuel but b/c it generates meaning fuel.
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Without meaning fuel, the only way to cope with the existential void is to pass it on to your child.https://images.app.goo.gl/hFjMxUykwi2Ld1aFA …
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Having a child ‘just because’ becomes something extremely important. (And as a side effect, inability to channel the void into newness manifests as being less creative)
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Ending side thread with a thought that just popped up. ”all shadow cope is sexual cope.”
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