I suppose the worry is that the "correction" and "reset" you say is required will add to growing gap between the wealthy Western elite and everyone else.
And how alarming that Western elites only allowed themselves to understand Zhu's message in retrospect, once the damage had been done.
What disturbed these intellectuals, in particular, was the continuing strength of the Soviet myth among the Western cultural elite.
The Western elite is not the sole villain.
NATO intensifies its bombing of Serbia to the cheers of a fair portion of the Western political and intellectual elite.
According to Frederic E. Wakeman, "The tea dance was one of the first cultural events to bring the Chinese and Western elites of Shanghai together.
The work had a profound and lasting impact on the honor code of the Western European knightly elite.
It is a remarkable change that has not been led by and is not just for the Western elites - it is all-pervasive with a declining cost.
We succeeded in mobilising world public opinion and the Western political elite was forced to move away from its traditional pragmatism.
And those ideas have made Western elites apparently indifferent to the death of their civilization.