[maui_hawaii]

I actually need to read the whole thing slowly myself. I got most of it and decided to go ahead a post it before I had to head out for the evening...

Lots of good concepts in here to read,talk about, discuss, etc etc.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I think you have missed the subtext of the article which appears to me to be "Man, how did our ideology miss so badly when it predicted the contradictions in US society would bring it down." Then he goes on to commit the ideological sin of pointing to American foreign policy which did not originate from the materialistic drive of the capitalist economy. This he tries to understand through his analysis of Nationalism and see it as "irrational."

He is crying out in this article for China's government to let go of the control of information and accept criticism from non-governmental sources. Essentially saying "America has won and we see nothing on the historical stage capable of changing that."