RedMercury
Junior Member
OP's post contains little of real substance in the grand view of things, and reflects mostly western thinking and biases on the matter.
Having returned for some years now, my thoughts about the real weaknesses of the nation are:
1. Corruption. Itself is only a small tax, but what it really hurts is confidence and loyalty of the people towards government. It provides a hole in national unity for foreign exploitation, and a source for defectors. It has gotten better, but there is still a ways to go. New management technologies and concepts are required. Digital currency is a good step.
2. Lack of rigor in many habits of many citizens. The ”差不多“ attitude is hurtful for a modern civilization that needs exactness and strict compliance to standards (which are there for a reason). This hurts all aspects of society, but especially public safety, science, technology, and high value manufacturing. When the peasantry adopts exacting standards (be them high or low, as long as they are strictly met) to their work and daily life, they wouldn't be peasants anymore, no matter where they lived.
3. Lack of nuclear parity. Nuclear weapons are used every day, in that their deterrent value keeps the peace and allows for strategic freedom of choice. Clear inferiority leads to constraint of choice and opportunity costs.
4. Weak external propaganda. There is a misunderstanding that what works well internally will work well externally. This is false because cultures are different. What works well externally can only be found through devotion of real resources and scientific approaches, not old-boy-inertia.
5. Maladaptive attitude towards educated women. Women with high educational level are wrongly considered not marriageable by many men. This is entirely counterproductive from an evolutionary point of view. Intelligent women are the key to intelligent children. Success in modern society (and also national power) relies primarily on intelligence, not appearances, athleticism, or even health. The best way to invest in your children's future is to give them a highly intelligent mother (from a man's point of view; conversely, for a woman, it is to give them a highly intelligent father). It is a wonder why men rather pick less educated, prettier women, and then complain when their kids are too stupid to finish their homework or when they fail in society. Those people really only have their genital-based-thinking to blame.
6. Worship of foreigners (in some people). A complex issue. It hurts national unity by providing a ripe field for foreign interference and leverage. While this is getting better, a whole generation or two are already set in their biases, and continue it somewhat through their children.
Having returned for some years now, my thoughts about the real weaknesses of the nation are:
1. Corruption. Itself is only a small tax, but what it really hurts is confidence and loyalty of the people towards government. It provides a hole in national unity for foreign exploitation, and a source for defectors. It has gotten better, but there is still a ways to go. New management technologies and concepts are required. Digital currency is a good step.
2. Lack of rigor in many habits of many citizens. The ”差不多“ attitude is hurtful for a modern civilization that needs exactness and strict compliance to standards (which are there for a reason). This hurts all aspects of society, but especially public safety, science, technology, and high value manufacturing. When the peasantry adopts exacting standards (be them high or low, as long as they are strictly met) to their work and daily life, they wouldn't be peasants anymore, no matter where they lived.
3. Lack of nuclear parity. Nuclear weapons are used every day, in that their deterrent value keeps the peace and allows for strategic freedom of choice. Clear inferiority leads to constraint of choice and opportunity costs.
4. Weak external propaganda. There is a misunderstanding that what works well internally will work well externally. This is false because cultures are different. What works well externally can only be found through devotion of real resources and scientific approaches, not old-boy-inertia.
5. Maladaptive attitude towards educated women. Women with high educational level are wrongly considered not marriageable by many men. This is entirely counterproductive from an evolutionary point of view. Intelligent women are the key to intelligent children. Success in modern society (and also national power) relies primarily on intelligence, not appearances, athleticism, or even health. The best way to invest in your children's future is to give them a highly intelligent mother (from a man's point of view; conversely, for a woman, it is to give them a highly intelligent father). It is a wonder why men rather pick less educated, prettier women, and then complain when their kids are too stupid to finish their homework or when they fail in society. Those people really only have their genital-based-thinking to blame.
6. Worship of foreigners (in some people). A complex issue. It hurts national unity by providing a ripe field for foreign interference and leverage. While this is getting better, a whole generation or two are already set in their biases, and continue it somewhat through their children.