'Beijing Is a Nightmare'
I wanted to live in the hutong as I had in the countryside a decade before, with unhurried days in a community where I played a role.
Michael Meyer • The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
Xi likes to compare “China’s order” with “chaos in the West.” As well he might, for it’s a playbook the world has seen before. Leaders of the Axis powers, after several successful invasions in the late 1930s, were themselves astonished by the disunity of their vanquished opponents.
Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
Real dystopias are more like the old Soviet Union rather than Mad Max: They are stiflingly bureaucratic rather than lawless.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
“We live in the ruins of political modernity, and it is plain for everyone to see that the political form of the nation state has to go.”In this inteview art...
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And yet China is becoming a more repressive place over time, as its power grows. The government is building hundreds of new detention facilities all across the country for the emperor’s political opponents. The civil society that began to flourish in previous decades has been increasingly ground into nothingness. The bargain in which the state prov... See more