Neo-Hippies in China
And isn't it history repeating itself, not as farce, but as ignorance, arrogance, pride, and selfishness in China, which didn't go through the phase and wave of Rock 'n' Roll, Hippie, sexual revolution, and feminism? China remained alienated from the world of the 60s and 70s, and repeats a past it never had, due to exclusion and isolation from the communist world.
The same phenomenon of late resurgence happened to communist countries that revived the Beatles era after the 90s, the neo-discotheque, the neo-cool fashion, but not yet the neo-hippie movement. This phenomenon has not yet been studied by social scientists, as a late youth, by analogy, as if it were a time travel for young ex-Soviet people to discover the taste of Coca-Cola, the Bib-Mac many years after the rest of the West, Bossa Nova music, Rock, Pop, New Wave. For us, it was fantastic to feel the warmth of the discovery of jeans by young Russians and Chinese.
Tens of thousands of young people are becoming homeless in China because they have been blacklisted by the Social Credit System. And when you understand how this system works, you realize it's not an exaggeration; it's an engineering of exclusion. Being blacklisted doesn't mean losing a point. It means losing modern life. A person wakes up one day and discovers they can no longer open a bank account. They can't take out a loan. They can't use Alipay or WeChat Pay. They can't rent an apartment. They can't buy train, plane, or bus tickets. They can't even check into a hotel. In a country where everything is digital, being blocked means being erased. These young people aren't living on the streets because they "didn't work." They're on the streets because the digital system has blocked everything. They can't pay, they can't rent, they can't exist. And without digital transactions, there is no formal work, no income, no life. The logic is simple and brutal. If the algorithm defines you as "unreliable," the entire society automatically closes the door. It's not a police officer removing you from the train. It's the app itself saying "access denied." These young people disappeared not because they committed a crime, but because the State decided they were a risk. And, in a regime obsessed with control, that's enough. The most frightening thing is the silence. There are no protests, no press, no NGOs. They simply vanish from everyday life as if they never existed, pushed under bridges while the rest of the country pretends everything is normal. This is the part no one likes to discuss: a system that controls everything can also exclude you from everything. And when that happens, you don't become a second-class citizen. You become a ghost. That's what's happening in China today. And the world applauds as if it were modernity.
Everything indicates that the unanticipated synesthetic effects of the punishment imposed by the system—which, before the capitalization of sectors of the Chinese economy under Deng Xiaoping, hunting rats with dogs in the industrial hubs of the special export processing zones and free trade zones that boosted the economy and society of 600 million Chinese—are now no longer in charge of those who have deviated from and overflowed the behavioral model demanded by the Communist Party in its mitigated, 50/50 state-private capitalism. The socialist re-education camps no longer exist; now they appeal to contempt and alienation. One doesn't need to be a clairvoyant to realize that humanity has already survived many catastrophes, climatic and economic cataclysms, wars, and pandemics, and will soon find an unanticipated way out of the synesthetic effects of this anomaly. A new form of parallel economy will soon emerge to threaten the provisionally balanced and centrally controlled system intended by the Chinese Communist Party.
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