My parents grew up in relative poverty and are a successful result of China’s epic growth. My mom used to get water from a well as a child in a little town. They did not earn their own wealth until I was in my early 20s. Until then I was also a blind lover of money. Now that I have it I am questioning my own purpose and morality. How can you not desire more for yourself when everything around you is developing exponentially. Once the livelihoods of Chinese people improve, then their desire to answer these moral issues will be stronger.

Until then, full throttle motherfuckers!! And a hearty “fuck you” to the masses of the West that whine like babies as China changes the face of the Earth. You’re all just observers in a game you think you’re part of.

Protesting Tibet: a joke.
Protesting the Iraq War: a joke.
Obama is deploying 30,000 more troops. It’s all just a joke.

I’ll race you to the top.

He never said it legitimizes moral failures in China. His point is that materialism is just a phase that every country goes through. A lot of people have really short term memory and they forget that the people in the “west” or every other country that went through industrialization was just like this a couple of decades ago (and maybe even now in the “west”, there are still segments of society who are materialistic and shallow like this. People are just blind when they think highly developed urban centers and suburbs represent their whole society). And yet these same critics say, “oh no, China have no hope and no future. Chinese can never progress past this, because they are [insert rascist and insulting phrase here about the Chinese people]“.

If you only look at the rosy part of the path of development of your country, yes, you would feel that it takes the best of capitalism and socialism. But what you have now is the end product, which as you said had been in the making for almost a hundred years, (I would say more, if you start from industrialization). What “the west” walked through is not so rosy. They are perhaps just as bad as what China went through and is going through. They spent a century or more to realize that the wealth can not be concentrated only on few and that industries can not just pollute the environment without regulation. Why do you feel that China can just leap through the bad parts and go straight to the good parts, and otherwise they are doing things completely wrong and are complete failures? Do you not remember the past or do you feel that China is suppose to have magic?

Check out the pollution series of pictures on Chinahush to see the cost of making 1 percent of the country incredibly rich while the rest are left in poverty and a lifelong struggle to make ends meet (or if you are lucky,, to end up in the lower middleclass).