Chinese President Xi’s “Secret Philosopher”
Analyzed America And His Findings Could
Reverse Our Country’s Decline

Great article. What is missing is discussion of Judeo Christian foundations of America, its orientation toward the divine, and how the cracks in the foundation he saw relate to the rejection of identifiable absolutes in those institutions that should unite.

This is largely drivel. The author talks about a thin level of socialization that overlays life in America. THAT'S THE POINT. If American children don't want to work on the family farm, somebody will. American children are free to chart the path of their own lives, not simply do what the CCP tells them to do. Some rather intuitive comments on social rot but a bit of chaos keeps you on your toes.

China isn't all that difficult to understand. Stop making them out to be some sort of alien culture no one else understands.

Second post. Observations presented go to the very core of Godless humanism and our current cultural suicide. Communism not only dismisses God, and the hope of a glorious eternity achieved by following the path laid out by Christ, a historic figure whom we are embarrassed to acknowledge It also , as the philosopher perplexes, looks for deep connections as part of groups. Marxism sees groups. The Creator creates individuals, unique and distinct. Individuals with freedom to act, to choose and to associate with other individuals. Natural law, discernible by human reason but helped along by the mile markers of the old and new testaments, there can be no great reset, no cultural revolution. DeToqueville marveled at individualism of Americans. We have lost sight of what lies at the heart of American greatness. Why in hell would we wish to be more Chinese, more communist?

China is an interesting animal that is really very understandable if one steps back from Western viewpoints and notions. The CCP operates largely as the emperors past, and the populous is comfortable with that. The United States is in the midst of change, as always. China is in the midst of change, too. And like good "conservatives", the Chinese Communists are trying to put the brakes on their country's own social change while still encouraging modern commercial and financial expansion, both domestic and global. They are caught in the conundrum of economic progress invariably bringing social changes. Visit any Chinese city and you'll see blocks of empty apartments, for example, built with easy money to keep China's massive labor force busy. These apartments stand empty for years. The Chinese can afford such waste because labor is cheap, and it replaces other social spending, welfare, with actual work. While America subsidizes not working. China subsidizes menial work, such as sweeping streets and curbside peddling. My family is still engaged in farming. It has expanded the dairy farms into a "dairy", from 80 milking head decades ago to nearly 1000 today, with further expansion on the table. All the children (of 13) went to university, and only two remain on the farm as managers over a staff of those "import(ed) former subsistence farmers from Oaxaca." As other relatives left the industry, their land holdings were bought, the land products now comprising a profitable product line. Their land operations, such as crop planting and harvesting, are contracted, avoiding the huge capital investment in equipment that otherwise would largely stand idle. Soon, these field behemoths will be robotic. Meanwhile, the Chinese remain knee deep in rice paddies quaintly planting and harvesting. And will be for many years to come keeping the excess population down on the farm. The problems of China and the US parallel one another, driven by general prosperity and the inability of segments to gain and/or exercise the knowledge and skills necessary to integrate and contribute. The difference is a slightly different track and timeline. The response, which has begun in the US, will be expanded social control laws, such as the end of single-family zoning and the planting of "minority" enclaves in suburbs.

FTA: “...and bespoke mixture of Marxism with local innovations ... .” “Bespoke” is a britishism for “tailored”.

A very interesting read. But a smart person who has been paying attention won't find much, if anything, new there. Lots of issues to be dealt with. The biggest, IMO, is that "the elites" have largely corrupted and taken over the voting systems and can now get "elected" by massive fraud rather than persuading voters.

Sure thing number 8, and who runs China ... GOSH, THE ELITES.