Monday 20 April 2015

Reality Check in China

Virtual Worlds Meet Divine Law

When men in their arrogance attempt to abrogate Natural Law--as established and decreed by God--they are given rope--enough rope with which to hang themselves.  The consequences of the rebellion are usually unseen, but ultimately hard and real. 

An example is China's one-child-policy.  This policy was originally enacted to combat an alleged problem: the  over-population of China.  The rationalist-cum-materialists (aka, communists) decided the solution was to restrict couples to just one child.  The destructive consequences of this rebellion against divine law are becoming more and more evident.  This one instance of reckless hubris will end up doing  more than anything else to weaken China from within.

There is now a severe and burgeoning imbalance between the sexes which will destabilize Chinese society.  If you are allowed only one child, and abortion is the central state method of enforcing the dictat, then male children will be preferred to female because males are deemed to have better prospects.  For every hundred female children born, there are 117 males.  That adds up to millions of Chinese men unable to marry because there are no women available.  Men, unable to enter into marriage, congregating in large numbers will inevitably be drawn into anti-social, marauding behaviour. 

A society cannot rebel against the Creator's law--systematically and relentlessly--and escape the consequences.  Some of those consequences, whilst initially subtle, are now increasingly manifest.
  An article appearing in Stuff explains some of those beneath-the-radar-screen consequences.  Chinese journalist and women's rights advocate, Xinran has written a book on some of these.

The first is intensive cosseting of the sole-child so that they struggle or are unable to shoulder adult responsibilities in the world.  They have been kept perpetual children.
There were huge ramifications for those born during this time, too, explored by Xinran in her new book, Buy Me The Sky. She interviews several sibling-less adults who, like Golden Swallow, struggle with the challenges and pressures of being their parents' one-and-only.  Their stories sound ridiculous: There's Du Zhang, the university graduate who doesn't know how to cut a potato; and Lily, the 25-year-old with no sex education, who bursts into angry tears when Xinran raises the topic. Xinran's accounts reveal a generation of Chinese so mollycoddled by parents terrified something might happen to them that they don't know how to live independently.

"Their parents' fear becomes a big wall surrounding them," says Xinran. "They can hear what happens outside but they have no chance to touch it. There's something they don't have as a society that we do. Some people argue with me and say, 'Other cultures have single children.' Yes, but they don't have a single-child society. At school, the whole class is only-children. Every child has their own kingdom, and they are the emperors."
On the other hand, the full filial duty to support parents in their old age falls upon just one person.  The uber-cosseted sole-child also becomes solely responsible for taking care of his or her parents in later life.  If the child marries, the duty is shared, but doubled.   Moreover, if a child pre-deceases his or her parents, their future in older age becomes immediately bleak.  There is now a steady flow of reports of depression and neglect amongst the ageing.

The one-child-policy is estimated to have prevented the lives of 400 million children being born in China.  The resulting dislocation to Chinese society will be far worse than any imagined risk of over-population.  The sad reality is that vast swathes of the population will be unfit for living in the world.  They will retreat to the dark, back rooms to immerse themselves in the unreal, virtual, imaginary world of  electronic games. 

Ironically, it was the Chinese government which decided that it could create an alternative world--free of the Living God and His law.  It has ended up shaping Chinese society so that its young people cannot function in any other world than in a make-believe, electronic world, whilst its elderly increasingly live in neglected despair.

When a society and its leaders decide to rebel against God and His law, He gives them rope.  The unintended outcomes are always devastating.


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