Dr. X raised one hand a few inches from the tabletop, palm down, and pawed 
once at the air. Hackworth recognized it as the gesture that well-to-do Chinese 
used to dismiss beggars, or even to call bullshit on people during meetings. 
"They are wrong," he said. "They do not understand. They think of the Seed 
from a Western perspective. Your cultures—and that of the Coastal 
Republic—are poorly organized. There is no respect for order, no 
reverence for authority. Order must be enforced from above lest anarchy break 
out. You are afraid to give the Seed to your people because they can use it to 
make weapons, viruses, drugs of their own design, and destroy order. You 
enforce order through control of the Feed. But in the Celestial Kingdom, we are 
disciplined, we revere authority, we have order within our own minds, and hence 
the family is orderly, the village is orderly, the state is orderly. In our 
hands the Seed would be harmless."