It also breeds a culture of cheating and gaming the system to get your desired outcome, both of which result in only a surface-level understanding of whatever field they are competing in.
When you're naturally passionate about something you become an expert in a way that can't be matched when you're just doing it to check a box.
With harshest competition and extreme margins of excellence, there are always several outcomes:
more and extreme form of fraud, lying and cheating (to win)
more self-serving actions, to ensure that to the victor goes the spoils (i.e. why would I help you to excel, when you could be the person who beats me in the finals?)
.... from previous : loss of trust (but with "fake saving face")
... and extreme top performers, who do actually excel and can be in many ways superior to less competitive environments, but are not often very good team-players and have a highly rigid form of thinking instilled and drilled into them
Nothing is perfect.
The current Western academic institutions, of which I've been part of, taught in, graduated from and seen thousands of post-grads in, mostly caters to the medium crowd, has significantly lowered standards of excellence and produces huge amounts of useless drivel, devoid of any practical utility - EVEN in STEM fields.
That's why I left it and will never go back. I'd rather sweep floors in a warehouse, code on my own or chop food and feed animals. More honest, less bullshit.
I've seen many of the best (not me, better than me by far) make the same decisions and leave academia for good in the West due to this bullshittery.
So, no - I don't see the West excelling or winning. Maybe the top 1% of STEM who have been mind-protected at home strong enough not to fall into mediocrity. The rest? Not so sure.
All in all, the world is going down the drain : education, innovations, patents, true risk taking, cross-disciplinary true teamwork, profound basic science, breakthrough applied science...
It's just more , faster, quicker, cheaper derivate works that give fast ROI that can be pump-dump-utilized for a few quarters for max profit, and then onto next grift.
The true long term planning is too costly, too risky, required too much long term concentration and leadership riski taking that doesn't really exist anymore.
Yeah, it's a bleak picture. What can I tell you? Wish it weren't so: tried to change it in my own way and didn't succeed and saw much braver and capable people than me fail harder.
People are herd animals and don't want to rise above the herd, but want to follow a singular leader.
It's just that the leaders in most fields these days are life-time actors, well-connected ZOG players, Deep State puppets or fuck-you-I'm-innit-for-meself psychos.
When I encountered them at Uni the Chinese were lazy copiers and cheats (along with the Saudis / Qataris) and the Indians learned by rote and were devoid of creativity.
When I lived in India it was filth and stupidity. Reading the newspaper was a daily round astonishment.
Please read this article by an Indian about the culture of India:
https://www.unz.com/article/india-its-worse-than-you-think/
The tofu dredge house videos are insane. 30 story condos where anything not metal can be grabbed and crushed like cottage cheese.
Anything metal is a thin veneer of chrome or aluminum plate on top of zinc chineseum instead of steel.
Fast forward through this one for some lulz. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oWDty6iNcgA&pp=ygUWdG9mdSBkcmVnIGNvbnN0cnVjdGlvbg%3D%3D
It also breeds a culture of cheating and gaming the system to get your desired outcome, both of which result in only a surface-level understanding of whatever field they are competing in.
When you're naturally passionate about something you become an expert in a way that can't be matched when you're just doing it to check a box.
With harshest competition and extreme margins of excellence, there are always several outcomes:
Nothing is perfect.
The current Western academic institutions, of which I've been part of, taught in, graduated from and seen thousands of post-grads in, mostly caters to the medium crowd, has significantly lowered standards of excellence and produces huge amounts of useless drivel, devoid of any practical utility - EVEN in STEM fields.
That's why I left it and will never go back. I'd rather sweep floors in a warehouse, code on my own or chop food and feed animals. More honest, less bullshit.
I've seen many of the best (not me, better than me by far) make the same decisions and leave academia for good in the West due to this bullshittery.
So, no - I don't see the West excelling or winning. Maybe the top 1% of STEM who have been mind-protected at home strong enough not to fall into mediocrity. The rest? Not so sure.
All in all, the world is going down the drain : education, innovations, patents, true risk taking, cross-disciplinary true teamwork, profound basic science, breakthrough applied science...
It's just more , faster, quicker, cheaper derivate works that give fast ROI that can be pump-dump-utilized for a few quarters for max profit, and then onto next grift.
The true long term planning is too costly, too risky, required too much long term concentration and leadership riski taking that doesn't really exist anymore.
Yeah, it's a bleak picture. What can I tell you? Wish it weren't so: tried to change it in my own way and didn't succeed and saw much braver and capable people than me fail harder.
People are herd animals and don't want to rise above the herd, but want to follow a singular leader.
It's just that the leaders in most fields these days are life-time actors, well-connected ZOG players, Deep State puppets or fuck-you-I'm-innit-for-meself psychos.
China and India are different cultures
When I encountered them at Uni the Chinese were lazy copiers and cheats (along with the Saudis / Qataris) and the Indians learned by rote and were devoid of creativity.
When I lived in India it was filth and stupidity. Reading the newspaper was a daily round astonishment.
This is patriotism.
Is that eastern culture or a shoddy attempt by eastern dictators to replicate western culture?
How much does the states owe China again?
U think they have the same debt as the states? 😆