My Website has been harmonized?

China’s future will be hobbled by old age Rosemary Righter - Times Online: "The one-child policy has, in its own harsh terms, worked: reducing births by between 300 and 400 million. But it has induced a premature, and alarmingly rapid, ageing process. China has given itself a rich country’s problem before it has become rich: for all its economic performance, Chinese incomes are still nowhere near as high as those in Western societies at the point when they started to age."

China is in the quest for a harmonious society. However, with a sense of tragico-comics there is a joke, according to Wikipedia, that when your website is censored they say that it has been "harmonized".

David Brooks wrote a very intriguing column on the Harmony of China relative the Western individualistic trait. As a moderate conservative, he tentatively strikes the drum for the collectivism. This reminds me of the debate on liberalism and conservatism. As I see it, it is about where you put the emphasis. The Chinese joke explains the difference. The Chinese have problem with tolerance.

Which system is more powerful then? Richter points out that the Chinese might encounter stability problems before the Western society would. Networks of individuals that strive for change vs. people who sit and ponder their context with others. I believe the individuals are definitely going to be more inspiring and thus energize people more effectively. Becoming content vs. striving to be content.