That’s funny, > On Aug 24, 2025, at 11:34, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm more optimistic because the control mechanisms may soon decide the > controllers aren't making good decisions. I understand why China would do > it: Look at what happens in the West when people are allowed to decide > things. What a mess!
I actually had _exactly_ this conversation, sitting in a very pretty event room in a hotel in Beijing, with a senior colleague (whom I will not name) that got me invited to the event. Good man, and I think a trustworthy man, but a little too uniformly enthusiastic for China’s current directions, from what I would have considered a sober assessment. He was asserting in just those words, as the Party’s reasoning for forbidding social media as a coordination tool. Look at what is going on in the U.S. The government sees the unrest in Hong Kong and thinks “we don’t want that to go in a similar direction”. Eric .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
