I mean, I'd say a lot of those critiques are valid NOW. I hadn't heard the critique about the rice farmers, I think that's a great point if true. What I take issue with is that there's some kind of racial element to it. Because as far as I can tell, based on everything I laid out in the previous post, pretty much the opposite of everything you just mentioned was the truth, historically. I don't see any point in undermining what the Chinese accomplished throughout history except for a false fuzzy comfort feeling of "that will never happen to us. We're **white**". And where I'm coming from is "well, they were actually pretty similar to us and that could easily happen **to us**". What we see now in China is generations of both breeding and indoctrinating a complacent, obedient populous full of cowardly men without morals. So applying that critique retroactively doesn't make any sense. Especially when the same thing is happening to us in real-time. I do take issue with this point, however, for the same reason. >Their rigid adherence to custom and tradition hinders their adaptivity. First, when the communists took over they went through great efforts to erase China's culture, or [the four olds](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds). Which, again, is happening here too. So the only aspects of culture and traditions that remain in tact are very surface level. Things the government felt would not interfere with their goals, and they could use as leverage. Everything else, they destroyed. Second, culture and tradition is desperately necessary **to enable** progress and adaptivity. If we had that in the US, we would be focusing on more important things than staring down our pants and drooling like a fucking retard trying to decide if that's a penis or a vagina. Imagine the raw hours completely fucking wasted just reinventing the wheel and trying to figure things out that our ancestors had already established thousands of years ago. Without that element you're constantly like "hmm why did we do things that way? I don't understand it so I'm just going to do the exact opposite, it doesn't make sense to me" and then going back and starting over just to come to the same conclusion **again**. It's like erasing everything and starting over every time someone's born. And tyrannical regimes love this because then you're just a perpetual blank slate walking around aimlessly taking orders. Like.... Bug men? Worker ants? With the limited lifespan we all have, the only real way to avoid this problem and to avoid subversion is a deep respect for our ancestors and our traditions. Say what you want about the Jews, but look how they act and look where they are. It's because they understand this very well. All of our knowledge of food and herbal medicines... Lost, and replaced with big pharma. Just so you can see, directionally, how I'm thinking.