/lit/ - Literature

>>18937936
Oh, I thought about this some more. It's kind of interesting to think about American conservative boomer depictions of the Soviets during the Cold War. Every one of those guys read Tom Clancy or watched the movie with Sean Connery playing the Soviet submarine captain. I read those novels and I'm not even a boomer. And Clancy could be condescending to Russians, but Capt. Ramius is the coolest guy in the movie -- he has his shit together more than anyone else. Clancy was a die-hard Ronald Reagan supporter and Cold Warrior.

Sure, the Soviet captain is defecting and strangles the commissar just after leaving port. But there was this belief that the USSR had serious people in the system. But can you see them writing fiction depicting a Chinese captain like Ramius? They probably have some. Maybe eventually, and some have an admiration for Xi. But the idea that they're all "insects" and bug people though is pretty common. You see it here all the time.

Tom Clancy later wrote a book called "The Bear and the Dragon" when post-communist (based) Russia teams up with the U.S. against (bugman) China. And the depictions of the Chinese are just flat-out racist and the characters call them "Klingons," "subhumans," "goddamn chinks," "barbarians" and "fucking yellow monsters." Except for the women though, who are just sex objects who want big sausage.

On the contrary, I've found Chinese students I've met to be very smart and worldly and pretty cosmopolitan in fact. The West is feeling more "provincial" nowadays. The future that is arriving is going to come as a real shock. It's also sometimes funny to read some Western commentary about the PLA and being befuddled and unimpressed by the presence of political commissars throughout the military. They spend a bunch of their time studying Mao Zedong Thought? Huh? None of this has any relevance today! And they're singing songs together? It seems so backwards and "not how we do things anymore." But they don't understand the purpose of it which is uniting politics and war like Clausewitz and Lenin and Mao told them to do.

https://youtu.be/75c6x5che8Y

And as far as the Clancy scenarios...

https://youtu.be/_4NXoFHO6QE

So I think the future that's coming is going to be a shock to some people. It's not people here really, but all these Qboomers and libs who are out there.