Super interesting article, here’s my favorite bit:
‘Actually, China does the same thing to America.
Many Chinese people, maybe even including some people at the policy level, don’t really understand America’s political ecology, social structure, or how their institutions actually work. But they scroll through America’s social feed—like some very free, very advanced, very prosperous moments—and think: “I want to be like that too.”
So the end result is: both sides are looking at each other’s highlight reels while ignoring each other’s complex realities, and they both fall into this illusion of “everyone else is living better than me.”
At the end of the day, I think both China and America should probably spend less time brainrot.’
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Super interesting article, here’s my favorite bit:
‘Actually, China does the same thing to America.
Many Chinese people, maybe even including some people at the policy level, don’t really understand America’s political ecology, social structure, or how their institutions actually work. But they scroll through America’s social feed—like some very free, very advanced, very prosperous moments—and think: “I want to be like that too.”
So the end result is: both sides are looking at each other’s highlight reels while ignoring each other’s complex realities, and they both fall into this illusion of “everyone else is living better than me.”
At the end of the day, I think both China and America should probably spend less time brainrot.’