Huh. So Chairman Mao, who I naively thought was a moronic psychopath who caused the greatest death toll of his own people in history, even making Stalin look like an amateur in comparison, was first and foremost a poet? Who knew? I think one of his most famous stanzas goes like this:
Rebels are we,
Born to be free,
Just like the fish
In the sea
With dope rhymes like that, you could see how people could forget about all the mass starvation and the purges, and be so in awe of Mao's lexical dexterity that they still have giant portraits of him around the capital.
I also didn't know that Xi equally reveres Karl Marx, an "economist" whose unforgettable contribution to the field of economics was "mass murder". I'm kind of amazed he never won a Nobel prize for that, but you know how capricious those judges can be. Plus, Marx was Jewish. And despite his valiant attempts to exterminate his own people, which Mao obviously found inspirational, I'm guessing that there was some ethnic bias in the Nobel committee a century ago. Perish the thought. Luckily those days are long gone. Obama got a Nobel just for being a black guy in a white house! We've come a long way, baby.
I also learned today that the draconian Chinese COVID lockdowns, which many Western progressive saw as a model of utopian social control to be emulated (because of course they did) were not designed to kill off a bunch of expensive old people, who were economically untenable due to the sudden contraction in productivity caused by Mao's brilliant one child policy, but merely an overzealous attempt to care for a nation in duress. Who knew?
Now do a post on how COVID wasn't another Chinese innovation that perpetuates Mao's poetic legacy, as we in America think it is. I need to be educated on how COVID is really a CIA bioweapon that was cruelly unleashed on the poor naive Chinese people, and didn't come from that Wuhan lab like we all think it did.
Man, you guys are really looking to the future here. I sure hope China and America, the two greatest societies on Earth, can cooperate in a shared utopian vision of humanity's future. With Chinese characteristics, of course. I'm envisioning something like North Korea with better restaurants.
Huh. So Chairman Mao, who I naively thought was a moronic psychopath who caused the greatest death toll of his own people in history, even making Stalin look like an amateur in comparison, was first and foremost a poet? Who knew? I think one of his most famous stanzas goes like this:
Rebels are we,
Born to be free,
Just like the fish
In the sea
With dope rhymes like that, you could see how people could forget about all the mass starvation and the purges, and be so in awe of Mao's lexical dexterity that they still have giant portraits of him around the capital.
I also didn't know that Xi equally reveres Karl Marx, an "economist" whose unforgettable contribution to the field of economics was "mass murder". I'm kind of amazed he never won a Nobel prize for that, but you know how capricious those judges can be. Plus, Marx was Jewish. And despite his valiant attempts to exterminate his own people, which Mao obviously found inspirational, I'm guessing that there was some ethnic bias in the Nobel committee a century ago. Perish the thought. Luckily those days are long gone. Obama got a Nobel just for being a black guy in a white house! We've come a long way, baby.
I also learned today that the draconian Chinese COVID lockdowns, which many Western progressive saw as a model of utopian social control to be emulated (because of course they did) were not designed to kill off a bunch of expensive old people, who were economically untenable due to the sudden contraction in productivity caused by Mao's brilliant one child policy, but merely an overzealous attempt to care for a nation in duress. Who knew?
Now do a post on how COVID wasn't another Chinese innovation that perpetuates Mao's poetic legacy, as we in America think it is. I need to be educated on how COVID is really a CIA bioweapon that was cruelly unleashed on the poor naive Chinese people, and didn't come from that Wuhan lab like we all think it did.
Man, you guys are really looking to the future here. I sure hope China and America, the two greatest societies on Earth, can cooperate in a shared utopian vision of humanity's future. With Chinese characteristics, of course. I'm envisioning something like North Korea with better restaurants.