Pundita on "Glopism" - a new form of Anti-Government
My friend Pundita had a delightful film-noir take on Chinese politics, apparently
in homage to the old radio drama "Broadway's my beat." When I asked her about
that, she replied publicly with an even more literary comparison of China's vicious pseudo-capitalism with the
gangster stories of the
1900's:
What rules in China doesn't have a neat label. It's imprecise to call it gangsterism or totalitarianism, nor can it be labeled mercantilism or communism. It's the worst of everything about every bad system of government, glopped together.
In that case, I wonder if we should call it glopism:
"when corrupt government colludes with thuggish businesses and organized criminals to perpetuate a vicious circle of economic, political, and social destruction at the expense of those too ignorant to understand, too weak to resist, or too law-abiding to fight back."
What rules in China doesn't have a neat label. It's imprecise to call it gangsterism or totalitarianism, nor can it be labeled mercantilism or communism. It's the worst of everything about every bad system of government, glopped together.
In that case, I wonder if we should call it glopism:
"when corrupt government colludes with thuggish businesses and organized criminals to perpetuate a vicious circle of economic, political, and social destruction at the expense of those too ignorant to understand, too weak to resist, or too law-abiding to fight back."
Posted: Mon - October 24, 2005 at 04:43 PM
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