Chinese exchanging political freedom for personal freedom

Ethan Zuckerman's post about Michael Anti and the end of the golden age of blogs in China discusses the idea, proposed by Anti, that modern Chinese are, mostly willingly, exchanging political freedom for personal freedom. He says they have no conservative party, no God, to hold them back from free sexual and personal behavior, and that they are more accepting of gays. There are a bunch of interesting ideas like this in the post.