CHINA IS THE STANDARD
China, not America, is today's standard. China's track records
prior to the Western contamination had shown a civilization that would
have only gotten better with time. And time here means
without end. China is old
and wise, as America is young and bratty. It's below China's
character to give America an an adulthood-initation spanking, but this
duty, thanks to the god-guiding, bullying way of the Bush
Administration, has fell into the competent hands of the equally
god-guiding,
but
terroristically, anti-bullying, muslims. With America now being
militarily
preoccupied and its recurring threat to China put on hold, China can
now
reemerged as the standard bearer to chart a bright new course for
humanity.
China must set an example on how the world can be united as one people
through culture. To accomplish this goal, China must revert back
to her
culturally oriented society of emotion and righteousness, by steering
the world away from the West's power-and-reason approach. Future
interactions should be based on honesty of
intentions. Let's
start by building genuinely good intentions toward one another by
leaving out all the customary spinny rhetorics. The world should
stop the practice of letting ends dictate the means. We must
go back to the traditon of seeking out the causes of problems, rather
than addressing only their effects. The world
then can come together to forgive the past, seize the
present and embrace
the
future.
A Thomas Friedman once asked his fellow Americans to pray:
"Dear God in Heaven: Forgive me my sins, for I have been to China and
I have
had bad thoughts. Forgive me, Heavenly Father, for I have cast an
envious
eye on the authoritarian Chinese political system, where leaders can,
and do,
just order that problems be solved. For instance, Shanghai's deputy
mayor told
me that as his city became more polluted, the government simply moved
thousands of small manufacturers out of Shanghai to clean up the
air.
Forgive me, Heavenly Father, because I know that China's political
system is
hardly ideal - not even close - and is not one that I would ever want
to
emulate in my own country. But at this time, when democracies, like
India and
America, seem incapable of making hard decisions, I cannot help but
feel a tinge
of jealousy at China's ability to be serious about its problems
and actually
do things that are tough and require taking things away from
people. Dear
Lord, please accept my expression of remorse for harboring such
feelings.
Amen."