Why Is China More Futuristic Than The West ?
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In short, it is combination of vanity projects and new construction. It is always easier to build new fancy buildings, instead demolishing already existing infrastructure, what work good enough and was not yet fully paid. It is why Japan reconstructed after WW2 was most modern for a time. Also at least Europe try preserve they traditional buildings if possible. What BTW is also a substyle of cyberpunk. And lets be honest. Modern buildings do not always actually look interesting. Even in China there is a trend of going from that and copying traditional designs.
As somebody once put it: Today's palaces, tomorrow's slums.
The simple fact is the Chinese cities are NEW, built over the last decades as a consequence of the enormous economic growth China has seen. Science fiction writers forgot that in the West, we are not going to tear down century-old cities just to rebuild everything in Blade Runner style.
Pretty much. Another thing about Chinese cities is their place making and walkability is utterly garbage - especially when compared with European cities. Having spent time in Beijing, Shanghai and also cities like Madrid, Milan etc I can tell you the latter are just much more pleasant to actually live in
@@DeftPol That is your own perspective. After touring China and Europe, I still love my country Malaysia.
@@bldomain That is not what he said.
Do yo know what do you see in other countries than China, but not in China? Blue sky.
Blue sky. Breathable air. Safe roads. Weed. Good whisky. Good wine. Freedom of speech. More than a single legal political party. Comedy.
China is a dystopian hell hole and this video is but one of a recent crop of commie propaganda videos designed to dupe and demoralize morons.
8:23 found some - but yeah it took ages.
Remember that places like China are giving off dystopian feels. That's not a good thing. No one really wants to live in Blade runner.
Blade Runner was a fictional dystopia. China is a real dystopia.
All of the LED skyscrapers is likely to make the west envious of China´s progress, but instead Chinese are fleeing China for the west.
You do remember that Cyberpunk is a dystopia, right? A bunch of LEDs on a few skyscrapers are not "futuristic", they're just annoying to anyone who lives close by. Which is exactly why they could be a thing in the corporate-owned world of Cyberpunk and ironically are a thing in China, but are banned in the West where people want to be able to sleep at night.
There are very good reasons why the West has stayed as far away as it could from some of the cookier futurist ideas from the past. China doesn't seem to get the irony of a nominally "communist" country being the very embodiment of modern day corporation dominated Cyberpunk.
Most, if not all of these LEDs turn off at night.
@@upsilondiesbackwards7360 None of these LEDs turn off at night as you can see very plainly in the videos.
@@TohaBgood2 People seams to not understand that Soviet Union was a Megacorp.
@@TheRezro Yep. Exactly! The USSR was just a giant bureaucratic corporations run by a bunch of incompetent thugs who got to the top because "daddy knew all the right people."
It had nothing to do with the ideology. They just needed some type of state religion and "communism" just happened to be popular in 1917.
Many of the skyscrapers in Chinese cities are empty.
In Europe we prefer to live in charming cities or cozy villages, and I am not talking about the beautiful countrysides. Take a look in Italy, France of Britain for example.
After touring China, I went to Europe and feel like I'm went back in time.
@@bldomain And so what?
@@TheRezro That means China is new and vibrant and Europe is old and stagnating.
@5:00 you motivated me to go downtown and ride the Detroit People Mover for those futuristic vibes.
0:54 Regarding the Maglev trains:
This one was built first in Germany (Transrapid), abandoned and sold to China (thanks for nothing, green party!).
Remark: There was a track planned to go from Hamburg to Berlin - guess who opposed it...
Dude, this video has too many repetitions. Same or similar statements are repeated 2-3 or more times. Please stop!
Yeah, in general the channel repeats some points far too often.
Keep it up Maiorianus, the content is great, just shorten a video rather than repeating so much.
And who's paying for it? Who's got all of their industries in cheap labour China?
I prefer dystopian futurism in movies, books or graphic novels. Blade Runner or Batman and so on are not environments I would like to live in. Having a hundred million LED lights that illuminate the facades every two minutes would be terrible for a good night's sleep. Cyber Punk is best in the imagination.
Yes. Those were written as warning, not a instruction.
I think Europe is taking an approach to combine modern architecture while keeping the older structures preserved and with cleanliness and more greenery added instead of hugely led skyscrapers and super futuristic buildings and metro stations.
Europe wants to be modern and classic at the same time, which does suits Europe better then the US.
With more of the EU becoming closely integrated we will see likely more skyscrapers and modern infrastructure to the point that Europe becomes a powerful player in the world.
The US had a big head start in building skyscrapers and now the US has to fund twice as big to maintain their infrastructure for the next 50 years or so.
Rich billionaires in America also taking the initiative to turn deserts into new high tech cities so people work and live there instead.
While the older cities like New York will become a billionaire´s playground since it has becoming too expensive for the average New Yorker to live within their budget.
And older cities in the Midwest are becoming the next skyscraper boom..
China had the opportunity to turn their older fishing villages into massive metropolises and since China is communist regime, the budget are getting spend on what the regime wants, therefore they spend it on infrastructure way more then the west..
And the results are that China has become the futuristic aesthetic that people envisioned, and i have the suspicion that the Chinese know this all along to lure in tourists and foreign investors..
Ironically in cyberpunk that is how Asia was depicted. Combining old and new.
While US is already a cer-centric dystonia.
When it comes to trains, Europe isn't so far behind. Italy just updated the entire commuter train fleet, and the entire network is being updated to high-speed standards to serve as back-ups when the actual high speed network has trouble.
Have you heard of Nevomo a Polish company wanting to put trains on magnetic levitation platforms on existing rails.
If they pull this off, then all of Europe will adopt this.
@@Siranoxz Good to know.
China can't carry Japan's jockstrap when it comes to trains, and never could.
China has new cities. I first went to Shanghai in 1996. No skyscrapers at all. Charming, low-rise, quiet, human scale.
The West, eg big US cities, are relatively old, built, and reflect waves of wealth generation and prosperity.
However, it's more fundamental: One has private property rights. The other does not.
One has the rational pricing of capital. The other does not.
I think both china, to a degree japan and definitely Dubai.
Japan is still quietly beautiful once outside of the built up areas of Tokyo and Osaka
@@hitmusicworldwide Japan is a free country. Freedom of speech. Freedom to move your assets abroad if you want. Freedom to purchase property, even for alien foreigners. It stands to reason that Japan's countryside is going to be beautiful -- it's owned by people who love it. Oh yes, that's right, in China, no peasant can actually own the land his house is on. The government owns everything. China has no citizens, only subjects. They own nothing real. The government owns them.