The thing is, I have spent so many hours on YouTube and Wikipedia training for the day my Jeopardy application is accepted, that I'm starting to feel as if I have been wasting my time. Having learned so much useless trivia, I think it would ease my conscience of all I have done were not to have been for naught. So, I created this blog in the hopes that one day, some future couch potato surfing the ancient Internet will come across this and say "Hey! This person wasted a shit-ton of their life on this!" and then waste their day reading it, even maybe soaking in some random trivia about the 2010s. And then in heaven, between pina coladas, I'll look down and say "See! That period of my life wasn't completely worthless." Actually no, what am I saying, I'm Atheist. I guess some dust particles that used to be me will be sitting on that guy while he reads it. Still pretty satisfying, though.
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Personally, I think that both are set up for success or failure for very different reasons. Firstly, China is so centralized with their controlling communist government that it is causing a lot of unrest within itself, as people enjoy their freedoms. Besides, China's eastern territories are struggling with the government's very forceful attempts at homogenization with the rest of the country for land claims reasons so that they have become hotbeds for domestic unrest.
On the other hand, India has too little federal power. The states have very different cultures and priorities, and often bicker among each other. As an American, I come back to the early days of America before the Constitution. States here would often bicker about trade rights and even had their own taxes and military. This led to a full on rebellion and dramatic restructuring of government. India has a lot of the same issues. If it hopes to get anything done in the way of development, the federal government needs to grow a pair and harness the states.
The same goes for China, but in the opposite direction. There, the states and people need to buck up and demand better rights rather than be complacent under their stifling control. And as for the eastern territories, China should enact a policy similar to that of America's in the 1860's: give the citizens free land to work. This would do many things, firstly, it would provide an agricultural backbone which the east of the country is rapidly losing to industry, and would alleviate some of the overcrowding issues present in the east as well as affirm China's control over the territory.
But, that's my opinion, gone to die in this graveyard for thoughts that is the Internet. Until, next time, goodbye.
