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30 Nov

Actually the biggest problem with the Asiatic dances from Petipa's productions are actually there is no national character to what are essentially character dances. The man himself traveled widely in Europe so was familiar with, or at least knew people

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various European character dances that were integrated into the choreography, but he was essentially just flying blind for the non-European ones. It would not be until the Soviet era Moiseyev company that would actually end up integrating non-Western character dances into their

repertoires which a grand total of zero Western companies have actually been able to successfully imitate. I've seen several productions and by far the worst was I think the Swedish National ballet's version where the Chinese dance was flat out just replaced by dancing striped

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@qin_duke

27 Nov

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What these people are describing is not disenchantment but dawning realization the mission of the Chinese Communist Party is the national rejuvenation of the Chinese people and not Liberalism. The biggest anti-party elements on the mainland share the same class background as that

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of his Taiwanese friend, upper middle class liberal bourgeoisie usually with media or academic or legal backgrounds who had for decades been economically privileged by the state. Simultaneously the withdraw of the state would naturally mean the rise of this caste to political

prominence as is the case of the West. The problem is that this group are fundamentally at heart, hyper status conscious cowards and incapable of exercising the decisive action necessary for a state to avoid stagnation. Their attitude can best be described as what would the

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Duke of Qin

@qin_duke

25 Nov

A strange feature of Western society is the almost universal values inversion where everything that was celebrated yesteryear is now verboten and vice versa. For advocates of such, it is progress and for others destructive iconclasm at best but this only addresses the superficial

surface values (well not quite superficial for many) and doesn't touch how deep this sense of inversion affects even basic logic and reasoning. Everywhere where Westerners cling strongest to the status quo and follow elite and government signals to obey, they mark this as somehow

being either a persecuted minority or avant garde thinker. Case in point the Facebook whistleblower farce which was a transparent government op is spun as a "brave" dissident speaking truth to power. Or regime media workers repeating state department press clippings as poor put

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@qin_duke

19 Nov

I've almost certainly written about this before, but the way Western regime propaganda works isn't by direct censorship but by saturation attacks. It doesn't hide the truth persay, it overwhelms it with irrelevant information and messaging discipline by hammering in on topics the

US government wants to be part of the water cooler conversation. Oh the "brave" stenographer's at the NYT reporter than the US murdered 70 women and children? News for a single day and you will never heard about it from any bit of the prestige media ever again. A non-sequitor?

Order all the pundits to warm up the keyboards to spin this story non-stop in a direction desired by the information warfare office of various security services. This is how US propaganda works both foreign and domestic. The reason it's weakening on the domestic front is that

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@qin_duke

17 Nov

The strangest manifestation of American conservatives is their earnest belief that the Chinese somehow control their media and politicians, which ironically is a belief fostered by their media and politicians as an ad hominem. In between their media screaming about China and

their politicians practically declaring war on China rhetorically every single day, they still believe this is true. The only explanation is that they are dirty curs, basically whipped dogs who growl at anything but the people actively administering the beatings. They see stuff

like Jim Clancy, fired from CNN for talking about a particular country or Rick Sanchez, also fired, or Marc Lemont Hill, or Fareed Zakaria's groveling public apology, or their politicians regular kow tows to said country and think the Chinese are behind it all. Laughter is second

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16 Nov

The reason I am against the humanization and anthropocentric treatment of pets is because it is a fundamental mistaken value judgement that treats non-human life at the same level as human life. To elevate the moral value of a dog to that of a human is not a sign of benevolence

or moral superiority but rather moral confusion and to degrade the value of a human life to that of a dog's. The human capacity for compassion, rather than an infinite ocean which we imagine it to be, is rather a limited and shallow well. Whenever we as human's pour out a little

of it to others, less remains for every one else. This is a fundamental reality that many people are not willing to acknowledge or accept, but it doesn't stop it from being true. We are not saints or boddhisattva's with limitless compassion. We are human beings with all the flaws

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