Comments on: China Extradites Aliens http://thisischinablog.com/2010/01/20/china-extradites-aliens/ The lifestyle trends shaping China's consumer society Mon, 21 May 2012 14:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: outcast http://thisischinablog.com/2010/01/20/china-extradites-aliens/comment-page-1/#comment-1149 outcast Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:42:27 +0000 http://thisischinablog.com/?p=1478#comment-1149 How is it "rude" and "culturally regressive" to protest the Avatar's replacement? Blind devotion to Confucian ideology was one of the factors that got China into trouble during the past few hundred years, and I fail to see how trying to dredge it up and present it as some sort of zombie culture would make things any better. So many aspects of it are obsolete and/or superstitious that it really makes no sense to bring it back at all. Wouldn't it be better to create something new, something better suited to the 21st century and beyond? Or is China so philisophically bankrupt it can't do that anymore? How is it “rude” and “culturally regressive” to protest the Avatar’s replacement? Blind devotion to Confucian ideology was one of the factors that got China into trouble during the past few hundred years, and I fail to see how trying to dredge it up and present it as some sort of zombie culture would make things any better. So many aspects of it are obsolete and/or superstitious that it really makes no sense to bring it back at all.

Wouldn’t it be better to create something new, something better suited to the 21st century and beyond? Or is China so philisophically bankrupt it can’t do that anymore?

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