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311 likes, 32 comments - amyyyang00 on September 5, 2026: "A response to the recent article of @jacobinmag on China’s Gaokao. The central message of the article is: dear young people in the west, please do not even think about class struggles, you will feel better after reading the stories manufactured by the White Empire on how much more miserable your peers in China are.".
2,367 likes, 88 comments - peoples.propaganda on September 5, 2026: "Yet another example of China using state power to suppress the interests and discipline the actions of those with capital for the protection and security of those without capital.
Also, watch out for an increase in anti-China propaganda, remember the US just approved an additional $2 billion in spending for creators and influencers who spread it.
@mings.chinaus.tak
#usa #propaganda #china #gusanos #power".
12K likes, 450 comments - misseatinggood on August 18, 2026: "Moralizing China is a luxury of the Holocene (the period of climactic stability that is now ending)".
One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).
We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.
The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.
The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.
A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.
That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.
Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.
The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.
