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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a child\u2019s legs \u2014 forever.<\/a><\/p>\n

Not to worry.\u00a0 This is all part of the Wise and Just Olympic training regimen for the People\u2019s Chinese Olympic Happy Joy Go Movement!\u00a0 China, you will recall, is the enlightened society the Man with the High IQ said he \u201c fully understands\u201d and \u201cwill not second-guess\u201d<\/a> when it comes to its One Child Policy of forced abortion. This same Champion of the Little Guy also gazes across the Pacific to admire the way in which this enlightened society displays all the truly \u201c great cities<\/a>\u201d in comparison with our own regrettable resistance to the Hive Mind and the wise planners of the Collective.<\/p>\n

The trouble with westerners is their ruthless and cruel unwillingness to subject their children to the kind of state discipline necessary to make our Wise and Just Rulers look really good on the world stage. Our Wise and Just Rulers may find it necessary to\u2026 discipline us for this stubborn resistance to their Just and Wise policies. For our own good. As in the Great Cities of China.<\/p>\n

Bonus civilizational contribution: Due to the efforts of conservative Catholic combox thinkers over the past decade, I think we can all agree that there is no real way to tell if this\u2026 oh, what shall we call it?, \u201cenhanced training regimen\u201d?\u2026 is torture or not. It\u2019s all sooooo confusing. Best to just let the state have its way for the greater good and the glory of the Fatherland.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"