The depravity of Chinese tradition under Rousseau's lens

On the side effect of civilization.

After reading half of Part I of Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, I felt quite concerning about modernity and tradition present in China.

Believing that one can design reproduction better than nature:
周禮 has a myth where the monogamy practice (周公之禮、嫁娶) was invented when someone thought that the promiscuous human nature is bad. Rousseau would have said, “How dare him?” Before that, there was myth full of imagination like 女媧補天, 夸父逐日. After that, even human reproduction must be approved by both heads of family.
Result: severe overpopulation throughout history (until 2000 or maybe 2010) fter many, many cycles of intense reproduction (until land cannot support it) and immigration.

Cultural racism:
華裔之辯 is a blind faith that believes their own culture is the most superior. It extends to racism by birth.
Result: even to this day, disrespect for science and blind faith to whatever the ancestors have said.

Make no doubt that it is a culture passed down by conquest, not by blood. It is not without an irony that nature selects culture too, as if information is a living creature. Natural selection has never cared for the welfare of individuals, nor does the market.

In short, 夏 replaced the merit-based political system with a violent one, depriving its subjects of political freedom. 周 ruled over people’s minds. I think this is really depraved; the act of forcefully removing people from their natural state.

There’s also the dual inheritance theory of biology and culture, which I’m not familiar with.

If we decide who is to blame, it’s probably the past rulers who censored speech and only allowed/selected the above ideas to spread. 秦 made its people slaves. 元 gerrymandered the province borders to cut across original communities like Africa country borders today. 清 implemented the Emperor’s power down to the township level (previously autonomous) so the entirety of their ethnicity can live worry-free. The commonality: a group of invaders come, censor speech and rule with terror, then implement institution inconducive to its people living a calm life.

What else lost in modern society (according to the book):

• The ability for one to sleep under trees, wherever they want.
• Let nature select infants. (Do not let infants be a burden to parents.)

Around 1650, the population in Qing Dynasty exponentiated until around 1825.