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.

The rapidity of societal change in Asia is something the world has never seen. It creates a fun opportunity where America thinks it is ahead and suddenly learns just how far behind it really is. Sort of like Perry arriving in Japan. America might eventually have a Meiji restoration of its own.