"See, pappy? They's white trash over yonder, too! If we'uns could get together, we could form us a reg'lar empire!"
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"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
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The Chinese have no concept of national hubris, or collective sense of humility based on the eventual likelihood of nemesis. As a civilisation they are like a spoiled child which always got its own way, and communism only made that worse.
We 'white trash' in contrast experience civilisation as balanced on the edge of the abyss, between Apollo and Dionysus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonian_and_Dionysian
So yeah Mr Xi, we shall see, we shall see.
Good assessment of the Chinese character/psyche.
To hell with communist China.
We have drop-bears and bunyips.
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