/lit/ - Literature

>China’s been around for thousands of years. I expect this is just a slow incorporation into the dragon of a new material need being realized. The acceptance that China must finally open itself to the planetary civilization around it. Yet, it will do it on its on terms not the West’s. It’s time and temporal vision is at odds with the eschatological world of Christian and Secular apologetics. It’s temporality is another path of modernity than our own. A virtual path that seeks in the atemporal present an absolute future, a retroactive alignment of past and present need, an opening to possibility rather than closure.

>It knows very well that the American Empire is trying to enclose the commons for its own benefit, and knows as well that America is in decay and fraying around the edges. All America has is its paranoia and its global militarized systems of total surveillance, Naval-Army-Air Force, secret black ops, UN Cops, World Courts, and Corporatism shadowing everything. Economically China is on the rise, while America is falling into its own nightmare horror show: a future without nostalgia, a land where the only retro-futures of progress are those that live on zombie labor and fears, dreams of former glory that never was but has become the dream of an inverted and perverted exceptionalism that seeks nothing more than the control of the planet and its resources.

>China and its city of dreams, Shanghai have other paths, other times, other modernity’s than those of the West.