In the past, I always felt that the American system was excellent, democratic and free. But in the past few years, with the increase of my knowledge and the deepening of my cognition, I found that the United States today may no longer be the United States in the American dream that everyone has passed down by word of mouth.
A seemingly democratic country is actually controlled and influenced by various capitals behind it, such as political donations, which may be taken for granted in the United States, but it is difficult to imagine in China that it achieves "power and money transactions" in one way.
In addition, I think that even for authorities and experts, we, as qualified modern people with independent thinking ability, cannot be superstitious about these people. I always felt that the academic independence behind the ivory tower was nothing but the same now. People have to bow their heads in the face of money. What about the so-called top universities in the world, they are just a label, a symbol, and cannot represent what the people behind them are. Maybe, to a certain extent, intellectual elites have their own advantages, but this is just a The evaluation results in the secular society are nothing more than that. There may also be a lot of hidden content behind the so-called glossy that others do not know.
Compared with the state anti-monopoly this year, I began to look at the differences between China's social system and state governance and traditional systemic capitalist countries with a new perspective. For example, the listing of Ant Financial and the rectification of education this year, in the capital-oriented United States, it is hard to imagine that the government can have such great courage and ability to implement these policies. And these social problems caused by capital are exactly what a responsible government needs to do. If the government outsources everything and fantasizes about making society work well through external forces, then the economic crisis in the United States back then, and now The more and more serious class division is striving.
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