The enemy of your enemy is elimination of top-down control. China's ruling elite don't qualify.
The only remote possible strategy for survival might have been to kill a few dogs with kicks to the head and then lead the pack to eating the dead dogs. Then lead that pack against those who were watching the ordeal.
Top-down control must become a vicious cancer, because it must destroy everything by preventing annealing thus to survive people must violate the control. Annealing is precisely localized freedom.
The irony is how readers may not realize we are approaching top-down control in our own countries.
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