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#1: Pinguinite    To: Horse (#0)

As far as China goes, the culture has been under empiric, feudal rule for the last 5000 years, including the present day under the CCP, and submission to authority is arguably built into their DNA after all that time. Executing dissidents for thousands of years has a way of invoking natural selection upon the populous.

Pinguinite posted on 2022-05-08 11:19:10   Reply   Private Reply

#2: Horse    To: Pinguinite (#1)

Chinese people rebel when the Emperor cannot feed them. Expect 40 years of bad weather because we entered a Grand Solar Minimum. No Chinese government has ever survived a GSM.

Horse posted on 2022-05-08 14:23:20   Reply   Private Reply

#3: Pinguinite    To: Horse (#2)

Sure they've rebelled, but never have they moved away from feudal rule. Rebel against 1 emperor to install another.

It's been suggested that unlike Europe which is fractured by seas and mountains, China is not, making it easier for a single ruler to rule the whole land mass. The fractured European land mass ensured competing nations, peoples and kings which gave rise to independent rule and questioning authority, of which Chinese people never had the opportunistic benefit. Their never using gunpowder for weapons for some 1500 years after it was discovered driving home the point.

Pinguinite posted on 2022-05-08 17:27:20   Reply   Private Reply