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Thousands of years before Orwell penned “newspeak,” Confucius understood this importance of the “rectification of names.”

Let’s rectify #Amerispeak:
• freeing people = imperialism
• liberalism = authoritarianism
• universal values = bigotry
• tolerance = intolerance
2/ More...

• capitalism = corporatism
• democracy = corporate oligarchy
• free press = corporate oligopoly
• journalist = propagandist

• human rights = Western values
• NGOs = govt terrorist organizations
• Dept of Defense = offense
• protestors = domestic terrorists
3/ More...

• level playing field = rigged game

• healthcare = profit off systematically created ill-health

• war on drugs = prison state & profit off drugs

• metabolic syndrome = industrial revolution disease

• quantitative easing = printing money, giving to wealthy
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Mengzi (孟子 pronounced “Mung-za”), aka Mencius, was born 372 BC, 180 years after Confucius. What was his point, and contribution to Confucianism? After going thru his writings for the last month here are my thoughts…
#Mengzi #Mencius #Confucianism
2/ On the problem of ordering society, to avoid barbarism and collapses—Confucius pioneered the pragmatic system of 1) regular social rituals with proper form (禮), and 2) cultivation of one's humanity (仁). Confucius was mostly silent on humans’ core nature (important).
3/ So what did Mengzi add to Confucianism which was not already there? Not so much, yet something…

Mengzi made one big claim; that human nature is originally “good.” He also provided evidence for this claim. In this way he's seen as an idealist, yet orthodox, Confucianist.
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Regarding Hong Kong, which is in the news due to China reasonably and legally defending national security...

This study found that it's actually American state bots which swarm Twitter targeting Hong Kongers; fomenting revolution and terrorism.
"No evidence was found of pro-Chinese-state automation on Twitter."

But rather...

"Automation on Twitter was associated with anti-Chinese-state perspectives, presumably aimed at diasporic Chinese and mainland users."

Full study...
ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0…
The study found that these anti-China bots had eerie similarities...

["Human rights," "democracy," Tiananmen Square tank images, identical background images, similar screen names, posting all hours using automation.]
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This chart is called REVERSION TO THE MEAN.

Here’s a macro-historic analysis of China’s economy as a percentage of global GDP over the last 2000 years. Data from the Madison Project. Image
2/ Note that China has been the world’s largest economy, or second largest, for thousands of years. This is the norm. During the last 180 years there’s been a blip, and now a reversion to the mean.
3/ The obvious question, what’s this blip? America!! You’ve already heard the story about innovation, freedom, democracy, liberalism, and how this unicorn society propelled itself into the heavens all by itself.

Here’s the part excluded from Western history books…
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