It’s a hard pill to swallow to be sure. Americans are taught that they’re exceptional, and the US is a shining city on the hill that all the world looks up to. Meanwhile, China is presented as some sort of a hellscape with a collapsing economy. I can see why accepting that this is an inversion of the real world is so difficult.
It’s worst than that; we’re taught that China is a dystopian, authoritarian hellhole and I think that our collective “common sense” is going to make us go to extensive, painful, and unreversible lengths to prevent that “hellhole” from becoming the world’s hegemon.
It’s a hard pill to swallow to be sure. Americans are taught that they’re exceptional, and the US is a shining city on the hill that all the world looks up to. Meanwhile, China is presented as some sort of a hellscape with a collapsing economy. I can see why accepting that this is an inversion of the real world is so difficult.
It’s worst than that; we’re taught that China is a dystopian, authoritarian hellhole and I think that our collective “common sense” is going to make us go to extensive, painful, and unreversible lengths to prevent that “hellhole” from becoming the world’s hegemon.
I agree, it’s all framed as some mythical battle between good and evil like it’s star wars or something.