Thread by @qin_duke

The intellectual retreat of Liberalism is a global phenomenon. It's success in hindsight may have been contingent on the unprecedented affluence of Western societies from the decades following ww2 to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Stagnation and decay

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for the last two decades have lead many to challenge previously assumed universals. For China, the shift was not because of immiseration, to the contrary the last two decades have witnessed unprecedented prosperity, yet the values of China's intellectual boomers, those who most

slavishly aped the West in all things have been left behind by the Chinese mainstream who have developed a civilizational self confidence engendered by strength that the eunuch compradors who simply lacked the balls to comprehend. To a class, those who rage against the Party's

resurgence under Xi aren't rebels or iconoclasts, to the contrary they were the pet intellectuals in their 60's the state cultivated who discovered that their ideology is past it's due date. Cai Xia, Fan Fan, this Zha woman were the thwarted intellectuals, the former teenage red

guards and disaffected would be lumpen red aristocrats. The hilarious joke of these useless group of people is that they have transfered their fanatical loyalty of their youth from Mao to a new personality cult of Trump in their dottage.