The most important factor holding Chinese society together today is coercion. Yes, it helps that the Communist Party has engineered rapid growth, but the dramatic increase in social disturbances – perhaps as many as 230,000 protests in 2009 – indicates that Chinese society is nonetheless fundamentally unstable. Analysts say that the Chinese fear chaos and that this fear will effectively keep the Party in power. Yet if that were the case, why are so many disturbances occurring today?

Sooner or later, all countries face the issue of loyalty. Some states manage to maintain stability in society, others don’t. And the issue of prosperity is not the main one, it does not contribute to the strengthening of citizens’ loyalty to their state. Rather, the opposite is true. Prosperity often contributes to the disruption of loyalty.

Соответствуют ли представления, которые лежат в основе действий государственной власти, элит и просто активных общественных групп, реальности пространства продолжающей оставаться самой большой территориально и самой ментально «пространственной» страны современного мира? В каком сотношении должны находится ее организация и самоорганизация? Череда-«чертовщина» ряда событий в столице продемонстрировала, что пора вводить экзамен на грамотное чтение текстов пространства.