Network States

Engineering

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

One thing I notice in the West especially is this tendency to severely underestimate how much change China has gone through in the past 30ish years. It’s unprecedented at a scale that I don’t portend to even attempt to understand as well, but I think it’s severely overlooked as many in the West

Americans are just not calibrated on how far Asia has advanced.

Why? I think it’s partly because there is no mass media depicting modern life in Asia besides perhaps Crazy Rich Asians. Also partly pride.

This is your 1% owned media indoctrination! It doesn’t look good if the government will show you how Asia has out grown the US.. The only problem they have is that it’s not that easy to destabilize the east!