Replied to this last week but it was one of the posts that got lost in the wash.

The guy's analogy of Kafka meets Joseph Heller is a good one. Reminds you that totalitarianism is not some abstract concept restricted to a few powerful people at the top - it's a system-wide thing.

On the positive side, if the military is anywhere near as dysfunctional as the hospitals then Taiwan might have a decent chance of repelling the invasion.