RE: Council on Foreign Relations Discusses COVID-19 on Feb. 13 2020.
It is political and social stability that fosters prosperity. Your "fweedom" tend to result in instability, misery, and chaos. China is under "brutal" tyranny? Why stop there. According to your definition of "fweedom" and "tyranny," the entire human race that live under any organised system of government live under "slavery" and "tyranny." I suppose only those subsisting in the jungles of the Amazon would be "fwee" from "tyranny. Actually, even those who live in tribal structures in the deep Amazon jungle have a system of social hierarchy and government - ie an institutionalised system/tradition to settle disputes. It seems that no human being is truly "fwee" as you deem it.
Only Alex Jones' disciples would consider the above rational panel discussion by experts as a conspiracy gathering. Prevention of social panic by control of misinformation and incomplete facts is "evil censorship." According to you, every society ought to provide unrestricted platform to those who spread misinformation and conspiracy theories, thereby destabilising society, undermining rational governance, and detracting from the common sum of human knowledge. Only in a "fwee" society would the subjects believe that the Earth is flat, reptilian aliens rule the world, vaccines cause cancer, biology changes depending on the state of mind, and other lunacies propagated by intentional or authentic idiots. "Fweedom" breeds idiocracy.
Here is your idiocracy, courtesy of exactly what you advocate.
Let reality penetrate the political shields that insulate your reason. I know you can do it.
I hope you do.
Indeed, these are the idiocracy born of "fweedom" you so advocate. When the iron fist of the central government loosens due to epidemics, the true nature of your beloved peasant scum is illuminated. Without effective central control and enforcement, men devolve into beasts. It is you, and your "fweedom" zealots, who fail to recognise reality; you are made blind and deaf that "though seeing [you] do not see, and hearing [you] do not hear or understand." Having made yourselves into gods to dictate to Heaven your whims as law, overcome by self-worship and narcissism, you "call evil good and good evil . . . turn darkness into light and light into darkness . . . turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter."
The reforms of Deng have clearly failed in creating sociocultural stability. Would these peasants have acted thus, had the CCP continued Mao's cultural revolution? That is the central question the politburo will be contemplating, once Xi's factional battle with his various enemies concludes. The next politburo standing committee, regardless of the victor of the current political infighting, will not be so forgiving and open as the current regime.