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Ten years on, the dystopian movie that proved to be all-too real. Read our weekly essay on "Ten Years," a Hong Kong film that predicted the city's sad state today. Bilingual. chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/24a

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Thanks for the note. In Souls of China one of the stories was about a meditation practice that was essentially new age--people hung out in caves and hugged trees. It was Daoist inspired by quite eclectic...

"A good political system is one that places restraints on our darker instincts, while a despotic totalitarian regime deliberately cultivates them. For the evil in human nature is the sustenance of all authoritarian rule."

The essay strikes me as significant, because it's written by a young writer: "Nearly 70 years have passed since the Anti-Rightist Campaign, but for today’s youth, reading this book as a textbook on human nature is more meaningful. We may love humanity, but we cannot fully trust human nature."

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