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>>24973953
I tend to believe ideologies hold sway for a given age and soon after collapsing societies revert to the nature of the people that build the society, and most of the time ideologies also arise from the people that build the society but are sometimes (((alien))) to that society (look up who composed the communist party in China and their backers). Look at The Great Wall, for example. 400,000 people died building that wall. Granted, there was a great existential threat to the whole Chinese empire from the Mongolians, but that is still a mechanical, hivemind-like, individual crushing decision to sacrifice people in the project of erecting a wall rather than in war. This only would have been possible by having a huge surplus of Chinese just breeding like rabbits to throw at the problem even if most die until it is solved. We still see this today with the Asian continent holding 60% of global population. When the Huns (similar people originating from similar area of the eurasian continent) attacked Europe, the European peoples banded together and fended them off in a heroic battle for the existence of their people. These are very different responses to very similar problems and I believe it would be difficult to explain it as just sociological differences, nurture as opposed to nature, because those people groups would have been fairly homogenous at that point in history. The Chinese (if not the asians in general) seem to consistently subjugate the individual whenever there is even a slight cost to the collective. Europeans on the other hand are much more individualistic. This would explain the huge difference in response to very similar problems. Today China throws its masses onto the assembly lines in slave labor conditions where they commit suicide because of the depressing conditions, all for the "greater good" of the collective. The CCP had an influence on causing that, but the Chinese already started out relatively communistic/collectivistic.