Reply #16: China is run by engineers [View All]

[Juche]

Many of the people in leadership in China, human rights abusers they may be, are also scientists and engineers.

In the US the country has been run by religious fanatics with a christlike faith in free markets and privatization. So the shit has hit the fan as 6000 years of recorded history has shown that blind faith in dogma does not bode well for leadership or governance. I won't be suprised if in 20-30 years China overtakes us as the world's biggest and best source of scientific research.

I think getting handed our ass year after year may wake us up. So there is some good to it.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/14239

"It used to be that just the so-called "Red States" (come to think of it, the Red-Blue thing was pretty stupid) were allergic to facts. But now it's all of us. We just sit here and take it all in, complain about gas prices when oil companies run the White House, wonder why the airlines are collapsing and there is no transportation alternative: It's the stupidity, stupid! While we were sidetracked by John Edwards' haircuts, the oil companies got Congress to destroy Amtrak for them — Bangladesh now has a more efficient passenger rail system than we do. While we sat transfixed by the magnificence of Angelina Jolie's lips and Britney Spears' shaven crotch, Croatia, Latvia and Albania moved ahead of the United States on the global Environmental Sustainability Index. While we munched freedom fries and stockpiled duct tape, our national treasury was looted. And so on."



I second that it hurts to see a nation with as much potential as ours end up the feared laughingstock we have become.