Apperceptive Mass

There's a type of apperceptive mass cultures have, a deep structuring logic that makes a worldview thinkable, verbalizable, and self consistent, a generative structure of thought. Immanuel Kant tried to formalize the one we're using. Plotinus did, too, but it was a fossil compounded of Plato and Aristotle, ergo doomed.

∴ my tears ain't gonna flow for my fellow citizens because they opted to cling tenaciously to their old for-profit reality grid to the point of rapacity. The fact that it's a death grip only now becoming clear, and the Aztec-god grin gives way to the mask of tragedy.

By contrast Chinese II's analogue to what Hill and Thornley called a reality grid is a synthesis of Confucian social grammar, Marxist political grammar, market economic grammar (carefully sequestered), and digital governance grammar into a new civilizational operating system.

Structurally, China's international fair deals are sovereign loan–based development contracts, not colonial-era style concessionaire grants. The host state retains legal sovereignty, ownership, and regulatory authority over its assets.