We don’t have to take ourselves so seriously, I think. Internet Adds 12th Website is an article in the Science and Technology section of the Onion today about how China has added a 12th web site to the Internet “for the enrichment of the nation and the advancement of lasting social stability”. This is funny! And there is so much to be gained from acknowledging the humor here, and then moving forward.

I think in order for China to move into a more liberal system, where public goods like the environment are considered more fully, there needs to be an understanding and an acknowledgement of the system from which China is emerging.