🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦 on Nostr: It is literally impossible for a single person or small group to navigate the fractal ...

It is literally impossible for a single person or small group to navigate the fractal complexity of Chinese local culture. Attempts to do so in the past invariably led to disaster. And since the Chinese are almost obsessive record-keepers, these failures are all well-known to the current despots in power.

As a result the Chinese style of authoritarian governance is to set policy and goals and leave it up to the local authorities to get it done.

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