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Another point to add to this - Asians haven’t had their narrative cracked anywhere near like what’s happened in the West. Their centralised powers still have a much stronger grasp on their cultural narrative overall than the bifurcation we’re seeing in the Anglosphere.

A one-party system might be shit, but it’s easier to set a coherent Overton window in that system than a two-party figleaf democracy with competing interests.

Low Information Voter 1y ago

Not all of Asia is the PRC / RoK / Japan, who do resemble your comment.

Most Asian govts are staggeringly irresponsible, fiat, negligent and corrupt.

Their people don't trust them to do anything useful, that's the biggest difference I see.

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StackSats.IO 1y ago

Yeah the generalisation of “Asians” is a bit too broad particularly in this context.

But those irresponsible, negligent and corrupt governments, they still pretty much all have much better control of their societies Overton windows than any Western country you can point to.

For sure the people trust them less which is really useful, but they have much better control over the media and social media which sets the tone for people.

The difference as I see it is they predominantly use that power to ensure their power isn’t threatened whereas western parasites use the power to drive wedges everywhere so they can maintain a fanatical base.