Federal mission agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Geological Survey, play different but equally important roles. They conduct and support science that informs decisions affecting public health, environmental protection, energy security, economic development and public safety. Many of these activities generate public benefits that market forces alone are unlikely to adequately provide.
Scientific leadership depends on people, institutions, infrastructure and knowledge. These assets accumulate slowly over decades but can be weakened surprisingly quickly.
The current debate is not merely theoretical. Funding reductions, workforce losses and disruptions affecting universities and federal agencies are already reshaping parts of the American research enterprise.
China is old. Really old. They’ve been around. 250 years is nothing.
We had a good run because we were based on freedom and so many other ideals. That document, the constitution, is a fascinating read, and kinda awesome such that it was inspirational, globally.
It only took about 200 yrs for that idealism to die. About 50 yrs for the fullness of the corruption to leech in and destroy it.
Meanwhile, China keeps moving on.
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…and speaking of “Black”…
Oh yeah. As a woman I cringe at the 1950s legally enforced housewifery/entrapment in favor of lesser men in the workplace. GI Bill, great in theory, created a generation of mean or “thin” moms and grandmas who couldn’t achieve the financial freedom to simply leave. Among other bullshit for other groups.
The idea though, it galvanized people to seek the better, here and elsewhere.
What in the American exceptionalism did I just read?
For some definitions of China.
There was a lot of really stupid ideas and racism baked in, though
The USA has the world’s oldest written constitution and is the third oldest government in the world. China is a relatively young country.
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China as a country has existed longer but it has a history of being divided among feudal states does it not in its history? When did full China unification actually happen?
Taiwan says never
It started soon after the entire country was gooned on opium.
It’s not about unification, it’s an ethos of long history. They continue. I can’t imagine that long history doesn’t add a forceful momentum to the idea: our turn.
Yeah, I think through thick and thin in their history they still considered themselves Chinese ultimately. As well Eastern philosophies and ethics are different from Western philosophies and ethics. Not that there’s anything wrong but a different world viewpoint and probably how they see themselves in it.