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Tuesday 21 July 2020

Daniel Bell explains the superiority of Neo-Confucianism over Western individualism in coping with Covid-19



2:00 Respect for hierarchy and the gentleman politician
3:00 Meritocracy
4:00 Respect and trust for competent government in Nordic countries
5:00 Countries with a culture of social responsibility, social harmony and the rule of law are better at dealing with emergencies in vast empires.
6:00 Diversity v Uniformity, Obedience v Innovation
7:00 Politicised mask wearing

8:00  What should be merely a matter of common sense becomes a party political issue in the liberal democracies of the West.

Mask wearing in Toronto and Vancouver compared to Montreal where there are more deaths than in Wuhan.

12:00 Chineseness

13:00 When Chineseness was a cultural idea

14:00 Racial superiority is really military supremacy. Military supremacy does not last since all empires fall.

15:00 Exceptionalism and uniqueness

16:00 Confucian values are universal.

17:00 Social harmony, meritocracy, justifiable hierarchy

18:00 "You should become more like me!"

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