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TS obviously enjoys keeping company with us. Maybe he thinks he is getting our backs up, rattling our cage, etc. Quite the opposite. He keeps me entertained.
Let’s hope he learns something – which he won’t of course admit to – from members’ contributions here.
TS’s stance is similar to that of the conspiracy theorists, who discard everything someone says because of one thing they don’t like.
They too are ideology-followers, not analytical thinkers.
One, a flat-earther, was enthusing to me that there are THOUSANDS of flat-earthers, “proving” in itself that the Earth is flat! 😀“There are 93 million in the CPC. Who’s winning the battle of ideas?”
The Communist (sic!) Party of China is the club for China’s capitalist class. During Mao’s regime it was a nationalist clique that imposed itself on the population and inflicted on workers and peasants decades of misery, bloodshed, torture, intimidation and coercive regimentation, promoting the idolatry of one man and his sycophantic clique-members. It never had anything to do with ideas or freethought, which require free people and democratic, free expression. It destroyed centuries of literary works and records, and thought was subjected to fascist control.
Today, the CPC remains an imposed authoritarian tool of Chinese capitalism and imperialism.TS is a prime example of my definition of IDEOLOGY vs philosophy/analytical thought. As an ideology-follower, he can only repeat the slogans of his Bolshevik masters/propagandists. Never does any social analysis intervene.
Massive torchlight parade, TS, in North Korea.
https://images.app.goo.gl/GXgigxv5m1HJnip4A
Could serve as a frontispiece to Orwell’s 1984.
In fact, the similarity between Hitler’s Nazism and the Nazism of Stalin, Mao, Kim, etc. is UNCANNY!
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/books/review/13grim.html
A free spirit, K’ang Sheng-kuo.
In fact, this is similar to a Fahrenheit 451 story.
Sheng-kuo was a book-loving boy under a regime that was burning more books, daily, than any other regime in history: hundreds of thousands of tonnes.
At his grandparents’s house was hidden a treasure trove of books he could bury himself in.
This collection was also to be seized and burned a few years later.
All his life he would rescue and read books.
