Yeah maybe, but people give the CCP way more credit than is due. They are a much more hands on and brutalist group than technocratic overlords. Many of their initiatives sound powerful and wizardly but most are implemented poorly if at all. At the end of the day they are almost entirely reliant on a monopolistic hierarchy of physical violence and in person observations.
Yeah - the CCP is getting good at online Social PR.
Especially from what they have been learning about generating viral from tiktok (the ADHD Dopamine Addicts in the growing adolescent brain is a gold mine)....
But one interesting thing I noticed on tiktok and reddit r/artisanvideos and others for example - is these agrarian-crafty-chipster videos.
Like the soft music, the beautiful landscapes, the cute dog in the background and all the nice, clean village-esque looking surrounding as some master craftsman makes bamboo mats, or tofu, or paper etc...
They look highly polished PR videos that one might see at an amusement park showing the "simple but accomplished life in china - look how elegantly crafty these simple folk are"
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However - that doesn't mean they aren't making incredibly authoritarian tools disguised as benefits for society. and AI will engulf their tool set and accelerate. Just make sure to leave some bread, circuses and sex to distract the frogs from the temp in the cauldron.
