Escaping Conformity in the US and China
In this latest installment of “Dispatches …” we look at conformity in the US and China, and how living abroad can give you the tools to deal with society’s demands at home
In this latest installment of “Dispatches …” we look at conformity in the US and China, and how living abroad can give you the tools to deal with society’s demands at home
American schools are often criticized for being violent, and for producing underachievers. There are problems in the system, but I found that overall, the system gives me what I want most.
Now that the Chengdu compound is finished, it’s time to set sights on an even greater prize: compounds across the world!
I hate to make sweeping generalizations that over-simplify the diversity and variation within each country, but I will make them anyway.
Egypt’s revolution united the people behind a single banner: Change. But the factors that brought all those people together were almost all foreign — not the media and not spies per se — but exploitative American politics and headlong Chinese development.
After spending untold billions earning its significant search market share, Google has had enough and is preparing to pull out of the largest Internet market in the world.