PRESERVING THE LESSONS OF THE PAST, HOPING THE FUTURE WILL LEARN
Learn to see through time: 神话结尾 历史开篇 "Myths and Legends gave way to the start of recorded history"
Mnemonic mnémoniqueMemotechnique Eselsbrücke запоминалка 口诀
灭王朝走进民主新时代。
=“The dynasties of kings were extinguished to bring in a new era of popular sovereignty.”
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How may I take your order?
Most people who oppose the CCP don’t even understand why the CCP came to power, let alone how, or why for that matter, You’re stuck with them.
This is literally a children’s rote, regarding all Chinese history. If you can’t even read it you have no business talking about China.
盘古开辟!女娲补天。
It Bears repeating
You have a couple thousand years to catch up on them.
灭王朝走进民主新时代。
“Whose house has passed its poems down for a thousand years?”
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Can you help to mend heaven?
Or will you bee doomed to fill in the East China Sea?
Learn from History …
or get Schooled and Become History.
State Power, Religion, Marxism
State Power requires popular support for the effective implementation of laws, the effective achievement of policy goals. At least tacit support of the populace is required. The greater the popular support is, the more more effective is the exercise of state power. Popular support leads to the quicker and better obtention of state policy goals results from. This explains the rise of democracy; the limitations on the capacity of state power to articulate and enforce effective policy likewise explain why liberal states tend arrogate economic, religious, and-or cultural matters to private right rather than public power. This "privatization" of state power may in part reflect the rise of civil society, which increasingly replaces state power in the most developed economies. Marxists should think carefully about how state power transforms and dissipates to be replaced by non-state actors.
Religion tends to be the first justification of state power and is also an abstraction of familial concepts. This appears to be a fairly universal in primitive societies anywhere on earth.
When Marx said religion was like opium he meant something we all need to think about. Just substitute the word “religion” for “opium” and see what you get.
1. Religion relieves pain.
2. Religion is addictive.
3. But religion is illusory.
4. Religion can render people weak, notably by making them obey blindly, also by demonizing others. The Spanish inquisition, Crusades, witch hunts, Jihads, are examples of religious extremism in monotheism.
While Marx clearly at least considered east asia -- he knew full well opium was used by Britain to break Chinese will and extend the British empire -- he likely did not engage deeply with Buddhism, Shinto (伸道), or Confucianism.
Just like we can criticize Marx for failing to correctly resolve the question of revolutionary terror, for failing to consider the liberal-democratic critique of dictatorship — dictatorships are rigid, lack feedback, suffer from bad intel and lack legitimation hindering state power — we can and should also criticize Marx for underestimating the power of religion as a positive force, and for universalizing the problems of monotheism (Manicheanism, universalism). “Original sin” is no part of Eastern religions so far as I see, for one example. It is Christianity and Islam , which appear to want to convert the entire planet, unlike other religions. Marx wrote almost 200 years ago,at the very start of industrialization. Marx correctly foresaw that the productive power unleashed by capitalism would make property and the state irrelevant. However, we have not witnessed an intensification and exacerbation of class conflict. Nor have we seen an ever more excentric cycle of economic boom and bust leading to such polarization and consequent revolution. Contra Marx, the various communist inspired revolutions which occurred did not hit the industrialized world. Instead, we have seen lesser, not greater, class conflict and economic cyclicity.
Wang Huning and Xi Jinping are likely working on actualizing Marxist thinking. I am available to study or teach at the party school.
神殿为我敞开门。Religions’ Notes
You may find it helpful to see yourself as the divine incarnate, the embodiment of the god form, to see yourself as good, divine, and here to do good to all creation. "Man at birth, is quite good, but by habits, paths diverge." 人之初性本善 -三字经
It may also help you to see that everything is alive, mountains, trees, rocks, streams, planets, solar systems, to see the universe as a giant living organism, whose constituents change forms .
The power and attraction of religion is that it promises to recreate basic family structures. As a child, most of us enjoy, or suffer, at least some form of parenting. Most parenting appears to be benevolent. Now imagine if either or both of your parents were good, perfect, all-knowing, all powerful, eternal, immortal. Who would not want such?
So for example the Chinese Goddess Mazu, which may be seen as a form Aphrodite or Maria, is the Goddess of the sea. She protects sailors, provides them food, brings them home safely or at least offers a quick and merciful death. Adults long for people s powerful as their parents were or should have been.
Hopefully understanding the social impulses which explain religion we can better appreciate its power and attraction to enjoy its benefic aspects and channel contain and control any malevolent aspects of religion.
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“色 Desire [i.e. greed, lust, but also colors] is nothing but emptiness. ….
Emptiness, namely, is desire”
“Two Houses, alike in equal Dignity”: Parallel Hopes, 天真
The United States imagined China, once wealthy or at least not starving would
become less war like
would improve its human rights
would reform its legal and political system
Some of that happened! My so-called leaders were however unstructured, opportunistic, and tended to misapprehend the Chinese Communist Party.
China, currently, hopes that building Belt and Road Partners will result in jobs and trade for China and improve the quality and duration of life in the partner countries.
Mao teaches us to be self-reliant, so the opinions of my so-called leaders are not so important to China. I do think China will have some success in some parts of BRI and in others not as much as might be hoped.
I doubt Beijing or Washington will be able to bridge their mutual misapprehensions. I would like them to be able to do exactly that.
I hope China will be able to constrain and even compel warring parties in the Middle East and Ukraine to lay down their arms and take up peace through trade. I said it, and meant it: the more China helps the USA in Ukraine and now also in Israel, the more the USA can help China economically and even politically.
Benevolent and powerful countries which are not warring can be clear headed and shape the warring parties conflicts, for war blinds partners and opponents alike. Just as there are people who want to blame China for the war in Ukraine, there will also be people who want to blame China for the war in Israel. We must resolutely oppose such false accusers, whether they are mistaken or liars, they must be opposed in either case.
EXPERIMENTAL INNOVATIVE CHINESE AS A SECOND LANGUAGE METHOD
Now that You Know All That:
Join the Grand Anti-Fascist Coalition.
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and Help Build the Happy New China.
揭谛揭得
Annuit Coeptis - He has favored our enterprise.
Novus ordo saeclorum - A new order of the ages (namely: secular limited democracy)
Now go double down. You probably will anyway!