Sarah Paine
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And it's because we agree with each other on these things.
This is my guess, because who knows?
But I think China is suffering from the incredible success of its civilization.
It had been the dominant civilization of Asia forever and ever for excellent reasons.
I mean, if you look at
the achievements of China, they're amazing.
And for Japan, it had always been in China's shadow.
And the Japanese had always tried to learn from others.
The Chinese also learned from others.
A lot of their institutions come from the Manchus, right?
But they pretend that we sinify these people.
And so they're actually Han Chinese achievements.
Well, not so much, actually.
But the myth lives on that anything that's worth knowing emanates from China.
Well, hubris.
right?
This is a human condition.
And the Chinese get a fatal case.
And what I'm wondering about is whether this country has got a fatal case right now of, you know, we know everything, we can do everything.
We don't work out so well.