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I'm not talking about right now, Cherico. If they started being anti-intellectual in a way that stifled technology (which it seems they are not really doing) it would take a while before the effects started to matter. Where "a while" would be measured in decades or centuries. When you realize...

Never heard the old joke: Why do KGB agents go around in threes? One of them can read, one of them can write, and the third is there to keep an eye on those two intellectuals.

And then sooner or later something like this happens. Again. Because that's how these things work out. Societies ruled by people who choose technological and cultural stasis will sooner or later get conquered by people who didn't choose that path.

Who here has read this already? https://jrnyquist.blog/2019/09/11/the-secret-speech-of-general-chi-haotian/

Communist government wants to be in control. If your business grows too big on its own, they see that as a challenge to themselves. It must all be about The Party. To paraphrase Heinlein: the ordinary man has one logic, the men who live by and for the exercise of political power have another...