You're a big fan of loud people talking a lot, aren't you? How very suitable for Western politics. In China, we say, "The silent chicken eats the most rice." We don't like endless public meetings with announcements for fanfare, to give people something to react to (probably has something to do with the need to constantly win elections in the West). And then they silently cancel most of them or just let them rot without follow up. We do things to do things, for the results, not to rile people. Despite the nonstop chicken clucking of the Western henhouse against China and Russia, in the end Russia cannot be defeated in Ukraine and China's rise, in every category, is unstoppable. It reminds me of a tree full of howling shrieking monkeys as two Harpy Eagles silently circle above. This is the difference between silent predators and their panicking screaming prey.
But even beyond this comparison of predator and prey, I cannot emphasize enough the strength and beauty behind silence. There is a natural rivalry in North America through millions of years of evolution between the great horned owl and the bald eagle. The bald eagle is twice the wingspan, 3 times the mass, and has a 3 inch knife-like beak that the owl cannot match. But the owl, armed with slightly stronger talons, gets the better of the eagle the majority of times, because while the eagle has some advantage in one-on-one combat during the day, the owl dominates the night when eagles and their chicks are completely helpless against owls attacking in absolute silence due to their unique ability to fly without making sounds. As a matter of fact, great horned owls prefer to kill bald eagles for their nests rather than build their own! It is because of this stealthy adaptation that there are 300K bald eagles today with every effort from the US government to protect them, vs 6 million horned owls which have never been threatened.
