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J M Hatch's avatar

It's the ethics, morals, and social codes of the west that are capitalist and thus insane, the leadership just reflects it. North Asia for 2500 years has as it's bases for the same Confucian ethics firmly rooted in all it's cultural points. In times of crisis they often deviated from them, but at least have as firm anchors to return to. It's not just the leaders of western society, but the whole society that has a terminal sickness, with the most diseased specimens in North America, then Britain, and Western Europe. Chris Arnade catches the pathos in his latest posts on walkingtheworld.substack.com Vietnam, hardly a sycophant to China, shows it's Sinophile socialist roots in the social group activities (Chinese chess, communal dining, taichi) striving against the social ills of consumerism driven by western psychology driven advertisement mind polluting games(and winning so far). Meanwhile on George Galloways show a caller in explained how guns were necessary because one has to fear ones neighbors in "Mericuh".

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Phillip's avatar

The true Iron Curtain of today is between those societies that have substantially dissolved the bonds of trust, respect and cooperation between neighbours and strangers and those that have not.

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