Amateur video shows a Chinese rocket as it crashes near a school, jeopardizing the lives and health of children — or what the Communist government calls faceless replaceable masses. Bill Whittle, Scott Ott, and Stephen Green look at the difference between communism and the American republic in how we view the importance of an individual human life. It explains why the Peoples Republic will never catch up to us.
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Steve: “Potemkin Skyscraper”:
What an excellent concept for the ages that is. And it *actually* exists. A permanent temple to the flailing failings of Collectivist Governments. I hope free North Koreans of the future can use the damn thing in some purpose to add value to their economy. Like a dead weight anchor to a space elevator or a foundation for a much cooler skyscraper made of nanotubes that’s 10x higher. Plus an alter to honor the needlessly killed people needed to make that building happen.
The Chinese have the phrase “Paper Tiger”; I wonder if the CCP – within the context of the genuine support it has from its people – is in fact a “Paper Government”.
Bill: ‘It’s American Centuries all the way down’
AWESOME!!!!!
Could it be true? There are cases when certain products/ideas remain permanently dominant within the sea of their competitors for years, if not decades, if not 100’s of millions of years (see Horseshoe Crab). I hope the U.S.A. is one of those cases. They key of course is maintaining freedom and systematic dismissal of forced collectivism. The Roman Empire had a good 2,000 year run. I hope the U.S.A can beat that record.
Steve, the “demand (for skyscrapers) comes before production” comment mirrors the Keynes Law vs. Says Law argument. This Kahn Academy web page attempts to show both realms have a place, depending on the nature of the short-run aggregate supply curve. Too often in today’s world the political element of what used to be called political economics is ignored while trying to turn economics into a science, but trying to model and capture 10 billion transaction decisions per day (just in the US) is beyond what they can do reliably beyond some grossest approximations.
https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroeconomics/income-and-expenditure-topic/macroeconomics-keynesian-economics-and-its-critiques/a/keynes-law-and-say-s-law-in-the-ad-as-model-cnx
Keynes’ Law and Say’s Law in the AD/AS model
I don’t want to piss on the parade of chest thumping about individualism vs. collectivism, which I endorse in general, but we read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War [500BC] for a reason – they were fighting each other for a 1000 years and we can learn from what he learned. There are also probably 30+ books out there on “the Chinese are 10 feet tall” etc. but one I just bought and have not yet read is David Goldman’s You Will Be Assimilated. This interview at https://lawliberty.org/podcast/will-we-be-sino-formed/ provides a lot of insight in a few screen scrolls. He has much relevant background and provides a sobering assessment of China’s position and plans vs. the US, a significant aid to help us understand what we are facing.
The notion that we care about the individual explains, I think, why we were second to the Soviets so often during the early days of the space race. The proper takeaway from that is: Being second wasn’t proof of inferior knowledge or competence, it was proof of superior morality, the refusal to risk lives just to save face.
How did we get beat?
First, we didn’t know we were in a race until the Russkies put up Sputnik. We didn’t know their German scientists were so far ahead of our German scientists. Ok, fair enough (Von Braun: “But that isn’t fair – we could’ve gone up first if you gave us that mission.”).
Second, we picked the wrong program to get into the race: Vanguard.
Ike: “Are you ready yet?” Navy: “No.” Von Braun: “We are, we can modify Jupiter and get it up now. Are you listening?”
Ike: “Are you ready now?” Navy: “Yes.” 3,2,1: KABLOOEY! oops…
Ike: “Werner, can you bail us out?” Von Braun: “Can you hear me now? YES.” 3,2,1 : Whoosh. Explorer is up! We’re #2!
Third, we could have been first with a man in space. Why we weren’t goes to what Bill said about valuing human life. The Soviets hung it out over the edge to get Gagarin up first because that’s necessary when you have a national inferiority complex. Getting him back down, alive, was only incidental in that mindset.
We also wanted to be first, but only after being reasonably sure our man would get back alive (the primary, not incidental, concern). We wouldn’t hang it out just to save face so the chimps went up first, costing a few extra months. Thus, once again we’re #2 in the Race, but #1 in moral standards.
Apologies if I mangled any facts.
Looking at the footage of the booster falling, my first thought was that someone miscalculated how far downrange it would travel. Then I realized that no one probably bothered to do the calculation, since the result would not have factored into the launch decision.
Love it!!
The Chinese mindset is all about “face”. They have no idea that it makes it them look like the morons they often are. In the US, you can see someone make a mistake, say “Man! That was stupid AF!”, get up, dust themselves off, and do a better job next time. (Well this is true for most Americans; the left is more like the scene in The Bee Movie, “This time. This time. This time”)
Kind of like ants in a colony or bees in a hive. Sacrifice for the collective is expected to keep the colony/hive alive. Those little guys don’t think about giving up their life for the good of their queen, assuming they think and frankly, when you see what they can do, someone is thinking. Chinese don’t think of their people as people. They are a means to an end. And the end is the glory of the state and the rulers Like an insect mentality.
The truth is that each human has a natural will to live. It comes standard with each brain. They want to live. They just know that there are fewer joys in life than many others have. There are fewer opportunities for themselves than others. They also know that the instant that they decide to rebel on any level, their families will pay dearly after they, themselves have been tortured to death and sold for human parts.
China, for all of its industry and resource, is the largest prison on earth. The inmates are encased in fear, ruled by hate, and kept in ignorance. If the people could see beyond their brainwashing, they would act on the will to live by risking life and limb to crush communism and its powerbrokers.
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Doesn’t the USAF and ROK use that hotel as some kinda navigation point?
Nav or targeting?
There’s a difference?
Nav points are never targeted.
Targeting points are open for suggestions on life altering situations.
Hat-tip to The Chieftain!
The problem with collectivism is there is no such thing as an individual. The collective totally owns each member of the collective. That member can be used, abused, and discarded at the whim of the collective as if they are worth no more than a worn out pair of shoes and dirty socks. Keep in mind that the collective does not vote to make those decisions. All decision is in the hands of those who control the collective.
Kill a few billion? No problem, the leaders have so decided. It is purpose of the member of the collective to do and die with full acceptance of his fate. Such is the price of not being responsible for your own life.
And, unfortunately, the Chinese people are brought up with the attitude that they have no responsibility for their lives, and so they care not for other lives.
Thus we get manufacturers who cut corners on ingredients. Substituting for a cheaper alternative in order to save a buck (yuan). Never mind that the substitute is toxic. He has no concern for anything but his own life and what limited success he can wrestle from the system.
Make enough money from creating cheap, harmful products, and he can drive a Mercedes, live in a big house, and travel to America to play ‘Big Shot’.
Anyone remember the dog food from China that was killing dogs because it was poisonous? How about the baby formula that was flavored with benzene? That created a cottage industry of Chinese citizens in the US buying American formula by the pallet, and shipping it to China to re-sell at 10-50 x the price. And even these American Chinese; they had no concern that they were creating a shortage here. They just saw the profit.
The Ferengi would have been proud! (Star Trek reference: wiki it)
As long as that culture holds sway, the Chinese will never get ahead of us (US).