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Originally Posted by UnderSpin
I agree with some of your statements, but I’ll give USA much less “credits” for that.
Materialism and consumerism are all human nature. We want those 'bounties' of life because we feel good having them. The party establishment will want to manipulate the system to get rich quickly, and get corrupted by power in the process. This is just human nature, with no need for USA’s help.
The idea that USA wants to control the mind, corrupt the youth and change the system sounds like a science fiction to me. The youth in USA may be more corrupted by materialism than in other countries. School age boys in USA spend so much time on video games that their minds are literally controlled by those stupid games. I certainly do not see USA wants their children to be addicted to these material possessions. And who is USA anyway? The politician, the business people, or the citizen? They are all occupied with their own interests, and their interests hardly align.
IMHO, the problem in China has much more to do with incompetent bureaucrats who mindlessly follow instructions from above, promote their self interests, don’t care, miscalculate, or are just stupid.
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I agree with you. We don't actively control the minds of the younger generation. We are not capable of doing so. However, we have a system that can deal with the materialism and the quick changing minds of the youths...most of the times. The hippy movement of the 1960s was when the west lost the control over the youths and the society changed fundamentally.
China doesn't have a good control over materialism yet. It's entirely new to the communist regime. The party bosses are the first to benefit and as a result the system is corrupt. They deal with this issue by encouraging nationalism. And of course nationalism can easily turn on its master.