https://www.outkick.com/whitlock-the-vanderbilt-publicity-stunts-explain-chinas-war-on-americas-competitive-spirit/WHITLOCK: THE VANDERBILT PUBLICITY STUNTS EXPLAIN CHINA’S WAR ON AMERICA’S COMPETITIVE SPIRITSNIP:
China’s ban on Twitter might be its single greatest advantage over the United States of America.
Social media has accelerated America’s transition from a competition-based society to an attention-based one.
The young ladies at Vanderbilt University have been inspired by the Kaepernick model. The Commodores women’s basketball team announced via Twitter Tuesday afternoon that they will not be partaking in the pregame national anthem. They will sit inside their locker room and “mourn” racial injustice.
That’ll fix it.
What’s being promoted by Sports Illustrated, the mainstream media and social media is media-approved activism and attention whoring. Competition is being deemphasized. I’m supposed to be ashamed that I’m bothered by this deemphasis.
I’m not. An attention-based society cannot compete with China, the communist-run country that is rapidly changing American culture. I do not support banning Twitter. That’s what communist, anti-freedom countries do. What we used to do in America is break up monopolies, especially ones that operate as undemocratically as Twitter and Facebook.
The activist athlete isn’t changing America for the better. He or she is simply building a brand to be monetized domestically and globally. The global monetization process stops first in China. The Chinese Communist Party — the CCP, the political apparatus running China — financially rewards leagues (NBA), corporations (Nike), athletes (LeBron and Kap) and entertainers (movie stars) willing to smear America as inherently racist, sexist and evil.
China doesn’t care about American winners. It cares about the athletes and entertainers who can bring the most attention to its anti-American propaganda campaign.
China bans Twitter because it wants its citizens focused on competition with America. China manipulates our social media apps because our competition for attention undermines the competitive spirit that used to define our culture and made us the envy of the world.
