[fChk]

@fChk

awesome, man !! as they say, things worth learning can't be taught.
also, where it would be most worthwhile to teach, it becomes very impossible to do so.

there are some nice documentaries about critical thinking and what is happening around us from some enigmatic experts and activists. they don't peddle conspiracy theories. they encourage you to explain things yourself. that is how education should be.

given all the facts, you reach your own conclusions.

but the sad fact is,  at this age of internet, we are even more susceptible to propagandists and fake news.

only one weapon can be of serious help. clear and critical thinking with an open mind.

There is a BIG difference between Education in its true sense of the Word, ie Paideia and the current 'cheap schooling' dispensed under the disguise of Public/Private education.

Paidea is about 'deep Learning' which is, among other things, about developing critical thinking.. Cheap schooling is about degrees and filling up job applications to enter the Work market for some filthy big Corp. Huge difference in the Objectives and the Outcomes.

Not sure if you know a brilliant US intellectual/activist under the name of 'Cornel West'. Look it up on Youtube, he has many keyNote speeches videos up there on this very subject... You may like to hear them.

I'm all for China bashing myself presently.

I'm not!.. quite the contrary actually. And this is yet another topic that we've discussed at length @FFS. China, although has all the winning chips in its hand, can't overcome alone the current World order set by the West all the way back to the mid-15th century (Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutch, French, Brits and.. the US.)

But the strategic alliance between the BRICS countries + IRAN + Cuba + Venezuella etc.., CAN, if united and others join in. By the way, many countries want to do that but are not allowed by the US... I told you, no more sovereignty anywhere.

The 'B' in the BRICS is for Brazil which is out for the moment (as a result of US machinations in their internal politics.) the 'R' is for Russia, the 'I' is for India, the 'C' is for China and (Ironically) the 'S' in the BRICS is for South Africa!!..

China + India are already in the top 5 World economies by GDP and are projected to be the top 2 within this decade!... There you have it, as to why all the hatred in the Western media--Trump included (this guy to me is just a Clown(/a façade) but the share evil that's manipulating him from behind the curtain is just mind-boggling!)...

Finally seeing China as a 'colonial danger' doesn't even need to be addressed as long as the other aggressive players in the region, ie the neoliberal policies of the West in the region (huge IMF debt enslavement) AND the increasing US military presence didn't even ring a bell!.. At least China helps with developing some high-value infrastructure projects not with foreign-highly intrusive-military bases OR limiteless loans that just enrich the Mafia at-the-top to end-up in the same banks from where it came from, with largely 0(/ or near zero to be fair) impact on the ground.

I'm into History and I've studied it for a long long time (I used 2 adj to stress that's not in terms of years but decades) to make sense of our current situation World-wide and in our particular region (ie the Arab World.) China was never an aggressor to the neighbouring nations, at least not for the 3 well-documented millennia that I've scanned. But we were, and we've reached their western frontiers, as well as the rest of Western Asia. But the Mongols got their revenge later on, not the Chinese!..

It was the Chinese who taught us how to manufacture paper when the European were still sleeping in there 'Dark Ages'!..

So yes, I will take China as an ally any time.... But that doesn't mean that I approve what they are doing to their Uyghur population.