Scribbles from the Orient

I took the picture above in the meat markets in Lijiang. A pervasive boredom surrounds daily Chinese life. Most of China is split between the wealthy and the absolutely destitute peasants. It’s a thousand of one to the other. China is unimaginably poor, and the laborers suffer dreary, mundane, thoughtless lives with little to look forward to and no relief from the drudgery. This woman epitomizes the lower class worker, her vacant eyes looking into a future with no hope. it really is sad, but it’s the oppression of the Chinese government that squashes all sense of innovation and opportunity, and leaves an entire class of people, representing billions, without chance of lifting themselves up. This is China.

In my year living there, I was simply astonished at the ignorance, the poverty, the cruelty and apathy. Most Chinese I met were incredibly dishonest, would lie right to your face without hesitation. Not only was it expected, but they actually have a name for it: they called it “saving face,” because for some reason it was preferable to openly lie to someone–even when the person you’re lying to knows that you’re lying–than it is to admit you made a mistake.

The incessant noise, the rampant pollution that kept me sick for nine months, the toxic waterways and constant grey, smoky skies. The human rights abuses—my students said many of their parents had been arrested simply for writing letters to the government. Their “health” system involved medieval cures using crushed scorpions and endangered rhinoceros horns. Thank God we don’t have their thought on health and food here, or we’d all have cancer. How good is the food? I lost 25 pounds in the first five months because of food poisoning. And I’m not a heavy guy to begin with. Really let that settle in. Read it again.

They grow their vegetables in “night soil” (soil fertilized with human feces), and they use it on the crops grown next to factories that let their chemical runoff spill into the fields. No respect for the environment, no respect for people, no respect for animals. On top of all that, China is actively destroying the Tibetan culture—they’ve killed 1.5 million innocent people so far, brutally beaten, murdered, raped women and children, simply for being Tibetan. Tibet was and is an unimaginably beautiful, unique country that successfully survived and flourished as a medieval bastion amidst the peaks of the Himalayas well into the 20th Century. And then Communist Chinese arrived.

The movie Seven Years in Tibet takes a few narrative liberties but it’s a largely true account of how the Chinese destroyed Tibet almost overnight. Read the book of the same name, it’s completely historically accurate and a firsthand account of what really happened that’s more astonishing than you can believe. It was so incredible, I tracked down a signed copy from the author that I keep in my library. The poor, peaceful Tibetans were completely outmatched and couldn’t withstand the communist hordes. Over 10,000 ancient temples–and I do mean ancient, over a thousand years old in many cases–were burned to the ground. Priceless, irreplaceable religious art and gold relics and artifacts were plundered, burned, melted down, and shipped back to Beijing. The art and culture and history of an entire civilization has been turned to ashes by the filthy communist Chinese, and the world does NOTHING.

Worse than nothing, because you have stupid Western TikTokers (or Baizuo as the Chinese mockingly call them) praising the Chinese as some kind of beacon of hope for the free world. It makes me sick to my stomach. I should do a video on this soon, because more people need to see and understand what we’re really dealing with. And I can talk about this because I was there, I saw it with my own eyes–this all happened to me. And to be clear, this is absolutely a cultural issue, nothing else. You can instantly tell when you meet someone from China, versus someone from Hong Kong or Taiwan. There’s a spirit there that’s been decimated in the people of mainland China. And the only difference is that the Taiwanese government doesn’t grind their people into inhuman dust as the communists in Beijing do.

Let this be a lesson. Communism was, is, and always will be evil. And anyone who tries to promote its philosophy of misery here in the free world, should be forced to drink deep from the open sewers that flood the streets of their idyllic communist paradise.