Everybody knows that bureaucrats are going to do the exact minimum they can, if they don anything at all, hence the need to explicitly state “comprehensive”, as a way of holding them accountable to posterior punishment. “I told you to be COMPREHENSIVE!"
-
-
Show this thread
-
To be fair bureaucrats being lazy and self-serving is universal, not some Chinese trait, although Chinese tend to be so devious they have brought untold heights to Goodhart’s law. The thing in the West we tend to leave this realities unmentioned as a matter of politeness.
Show this thread -
While in China they openly talk about the need for being Comprehensive 全面 and the dangers of “lazy governance” 懒政. I mean, yeah, dude. That’s government for ya. Politically motivated denials of reality are *not* a Western thing, and in fact in China they are often worse.
Show this thread -
Confucianism after all its an ideology based in a complete faith on the power of education and government to change behavior.
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Perhaps when the Chinese state has achieved digital near-omniscience this issue can be bypassed. The state will simply be the Emperor Supercomputer and supreme political power will simply be the administrator password.
-
Yellow Turbans will be hacker groups
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.