Well it takes all sorts! Glad you are so well connected. You seem to be reasonably intelligent from your posts elsewhere here and your opinions are as valid as any one elses especially as you live there.
But it is China and you are a visitor and as you state, you don't really care if you have to leave the Fun Palace. Some want to stay there and fit in and learn the ropes.
One of other tools for getting through life is to find the smooth path, it comes from a balanced perception, and yours is an effort towards that but jumps from extreme to extreme so expends more energy.

Compassion Grasshopper, compassion is relationships is also the inner path of guanxi. All over the planet.