A Chinese perspective on so-called Mandela Experiment

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

I put the descent down to plain old greed. As the Bible says, "the love of money is the root of all evil". Combined with the observation of some other smart guy that "once the poor figure out they can vote themselves raises at the expense of everyone else, democracy dies and totalitarianism marches in", it's really all the explanation I need for what happened and how.

Yes, we watched it happen, but we were powerless to prevent it - "democracy" killed off our ability to thwart the evils marching towards us as our fellow citizens opened their arms to embrace it.

In the end, greed is a parasite that inevitably kills it's own hosts.

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Says it all and wraps it in a bow.

We are like addicts. We will fight and willing die for the poison that we know is killing us.

I guess it is in our nature and we are destined to repeat the pattern, because we only seem to learn scholastically. Otherwise why do we keep making the same mistakes, honestly thinking that we are going to get a different result?