The thing that strikes me most about this excellent piece is the staggering similarity of some of these narratives to....the US some decades ago. It would be presumptuous to cast these lines of thinking as a mere echo of American progress narratives but it is hard not to read them as a direct challenge!
One particularly interesting way this plays out is the direct assault by particularly strident China boosters on Silicon Valley as the best way of technological progress. That's coupled with the insistence that the party has somehow fundamentally cracked the best way to do technological progress.
The thing that strikes me most about this excellent piece is the staggering similarity of some of these narratives to....the US some decades ago. It would be presumptuous to cast these lines of thinking as a mere echo of American progress narratives but it is hard not to read them as a direct challenge!
One particularly interesting way this plays out is the direct assault by particularly strident China boosters on Silicon Valley as the best way of technological progress. That's coupled with the insistence that the party has somehow fundamentally cracked the best way to do technological progress.
I'm interested in learning more about "illumine linga" and "industrial party". They sound intriguing.