Fine, China is more evil. My point wasn't that China was good per se. But that we have this strange tendency to associate power with what is "good."
That's the whole damn point of the Republic. Justice is not the will of the stronger. Justice is a just society. We used to pretend/think the elite were on some level, trying to seek out a just society. We know better now, now we just talk about power in political theory.
But a more just society is the only legitimate political goal there really is. We are only better then China insomuch as we are more just. That goals are more noble.
I guess I'm elitist in the sense that I think there is a natural order. Where the more capable lead and look out for the less capable. But the natural order is currently perverted by an artificial one of inherited wealth and privilege.
Those that rose with the boomer generation know its true. Most the time, they know their kids aren't as good as them (generalization, always generalizations). But they resist allowing their mediocre kids to backslide in social position...where they would probably be more comfortable if it was allowed.
You probably all seen these well-off pampered kids with pedigree in way over their head. Not a pretty sight. Its destructive them and the rest of us.
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