tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post8601460181225226782..comments2024-03-29T05:29:57.536-04:00Comments on The DiploMad 2.0: Mao Lives . . . HereDiploMadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-17310609626889641572020-06-20T13:59:26.912-04:002020-06-20T13:59:26.912-04:00Like your blog. I am going to link to it.Like your blog. I am going to link to it.DiploMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-47978289759898337602020-06-20T10:26:02.446-04:002020-06-20T10:26:02.446-04:00Riding around Beijing one weekend in the 90s, I wa...Riding around Beijing one weekend in the 90s, I was told that "this is the district where the rich and powerful families lived, before Mao." "And still do."<br />Mrmethanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06669446736032340724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-31544117570423060942020-06-20T09:46:54.029-04:002020-06-20T09:46:54.029-04:00As I wrote upon my own site:-
I shall be terminat...As I wrote upon my own site:-<br /><br />I shall be terminating my banking arrangements, because the top people of my Bank haven’t got the moral courage to stand their ground and state, “We were once those people, but we are not any longer, and what is more, we haven’t been those people for over two-odd centuries. If you don’t like it, take your business elsewhere, but we shall not budge; we shall not apologise for the actions of our commercial ancestors, and we do not apologise for who we are, and were!”Mike Cunninghamhttps://mikecunningham.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-88080302838238665242020-06-19T10:03:29.527-04:002020-06-19T10:03:29.527-04:00That is correct. However, the Communist system de...That is correct. However, the Communist system demands a large bureaucracy.Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-33014135234075088042020-06-19T10:02:23.459-04:002020-06-19T10:02:23.459-04:00Dip, if you and any of your friends want some Chin...Dip, if you and any of your friends want some Chinese translation support, let me know.Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-3887154795348915162020-06-19T09:30:12.276-04:002020-06-19T09:30:12.276-04:00Somewhere along the way, I was exposed to the idea...Somewhere along the way, I was exposed to the idea that part of Mao's motivation for the Cultural Revolution and his giving license to the Red Guards was his concern about the rise of an out-of-touch bureaucracy in China.<br /><br />Hence the Red Guards being allowed to drag university professors and senior bureaucrats out of their offices and send them off to work in the fields.<br /><br />Nothing is all bad! Life in these United States would probably be improved if the faculties of all the Ivies were forced to spend the next few years picking lettuce and admitting their failures, along with their co-religionists in media and bureaucracies. Gavin Longmuirnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-82931435558623996712020-06-19T04:41:08.821-04:002020-06-19T04:41:08.821-04:00Had trouble getting to the blog. worried about de...Had trouble getting to the blog. worried about deplatforming. hope this finds everybody well. We appear to be in the grip of a mass mania that is almost religious in nature. We had a good run, but it looks like our idiot elites will bring us down.. and get a lot of people killed in the bargain. Perhaps i'm too pessimistic.SicVicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-61879252329207061342020-06-18T15:51:52.889-04:002020-06-18T15:51:52.889-04:00Oh yes. I remember the fad with the Little Red Boo...Oh yes. I remember the fad with the Little Red Book.DiploMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-23558202275854415432020-06-18T13:57:10.303-04:002020-06-18T13:57:10.303-04:00Carl Sandburg, that good socialist erstwhile schoo...Carl Sandburg, that good socialist erstwhile schoolteacher, once wrote:<br /><br />I have seen <br />The old gods go<br />And the new gods come.<br /><br />Day by day<br />And year by year<br />The idols fall<br />And the idols rise.<br /><br />Today I worship the hammer.<br /><br />In short, our liberation from the Christian God hasn't made us atheists, but idolators. I don't know about anyone else, but I've lost count of the number of idols to which the Left expects me to bow.Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-24121806764960000772020-06-18T13:51:40.842-04:002020-06-18T13:51:40.842-04:00Actually, there is an implied criticism of the way...Actually, there is an implied criticism of the ways things were in the Spring and Autumn Period in Chinese history. Kong Zi wanted the rule of the wise instead of every culture's natural nepotism.<br /><br />As for Mao, I recall that he was "cool" on college campuses back in the 1970's. I remember the shock one Chinese grad student expressed when I told him that back then, the Great Cultural Revolution was seen as a model for a more "dmocratic" and "progressive" society by some of the supposedly best and brightest in the USA. What bothers me is that those college radicals of the 1970's are now senior people in all institutions of American life.Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.com