Monday, July 15, 2019

Beijing slows technological change to a trickle in China

I have it on good authority that a recent psychological study found the Chinese are experiencing panic due to the rapid upgrading of virtually their whole way of life in the country of  China.

The government may have responded by slowing further upheaval into the modern era temporarily while the people of China, used to their old ways, make the adjustment to mentally catch up.  It's a pause that is meant to refresh and take a big breath!

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I got verification of this psychological evaluation by watching on a movie about the Mekong River over PBS yesterday.  For instance, an American was interviewing a Chinese husband and wife who ran a tea-producing farm.  I could see from their interactions with one another that they could scarcely comprehend their good fortune.  Trees on their farm, 800 years old, they continued to pluck the tea leaves off of.  But now their leaves they knew so well were suddenly worth more than the modern house that as if by magic was ceded them!  They pondered their new selves in amazement. Was it really they, the same ones, who lived in a modest hut (torn down) just last year?

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