Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "How Ling Jihua's Career Crashed and Burned" video.

  1. I hate to catagorize what is an enormous population of people with very diverse backgrounds and histories, but the "Asian" (or East Asian) concept of filial or obedience to your parents bothers me, because it reeks of authoritarianism which to me seems like a midwife assisting the birth to eventual feudalism and tyranny (we can't escape politics even in the family). The effect is psychological in children, but can lead to long-lasting cultural effects because this carries on in adults to the next generation excetera. The political acme of authoritarianism is to "do what you are told or to heed authority". Exactly what the collective works of free thinkers in history, such as Albert Einstein, Socretes, Confucius and Mencius fought against. So in the past, East Asian people brought forth free thinkers in less authoritarian times as well.
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