I Found Something Awful in China
Key insights
π China has become increasingly dystopian, reaching a level that was unexpected.
π« China was not boring, but rather filled with unsettling things that were not supposed to be food, as well as instances of police brutality and maimed children begging on the streets.
π³ The beginnings of a dystopia engulfing the entire country, truly shocking and bizarre.
π± The addiction to smartphones in China was way ahead of the West, with people hunched over and screaming at demons from the sidewalk.
π§ Authoritarian governments don't want 1.4 billion people freely talking and planning, but they certainly do want them online if they can control it.
π¨π³ The social credit system in China now affects everything from your kids' education to job benefits, creating a system of control that limits personal freedom and political change.
π China's tech slavery and social media addiction may be a preview of what's to come for the rest of the world, including the USA.
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China is not the utopia it's made out to be, with a grim reality of noise, pollution, and disturbing sights, including a truck spilling live crabs on the street causing chaos and a traffic jam.
China is not the utopia it's made out to be, with a grim reality of noise, pollution, and disturbing sights.
Truck spilled live crabs on the street, causing chaos and a traffic jam as people tried to catch them.
People in China have become increasingly disconnected and addicted to smartphones, leading to a robotic dystopia of distraction.
Living in China for 10 years, the speaker noticed a disturbing trend of people being disconnected and not present in the moment.
In 2008, people in China were already addicted to their Java-based phones, with the introduction of smartphones accelerating the decline into a robotic dystopia of distraction.
China was heavily addicted to phone usage in 2008, with a stark contrast in societal interactions and lack of genuine human connection.
China was already heavily addicted to phone usage back in 2008, way before the addiction became prevalent in the west.
The speaker discusses the stark contrast between societal interactions in China and the US, highlighting the prevalence of technology and lack of genuine human connection in China.
Chinese government heavily regulates internet to prevent people from connecting and freely discussing, creating a subservient and apathetic society.
China's government controls every aspect of people's lives through phone addiction and the social credit system, preventing any room for creativity, wants, needs, or political change.
China's tech slavery and social media addiction is a warning for the rest of the world, but there is hope to avoid the same fate.
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