tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post6879550227605029714..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Greatest Cultural RevolutionStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-88745759348688912772016-02-02T13:25:59.307-08:002016-02-02T13:25:59.307-08:00Cultural Revolution was sad and terrible, but many...Cultural Revolution was sad and terrible, but many of its victims were not innocent. <br /><br />Liu and the rest of them had played their part in creating a totalitarian system that demanded total obedience to Mao. <br />And most of those professors who got beaten or killed had also been ideologues who'd enforced Maoist dogma.<br /><br />Many party bureaucrats were purged and killed by Stalin, but they'd played a key role in aiding Stalin to absolute power. <br />And many Germans eventually got burned by Hitler's mad wars, but they'd played their own roles in creating and enforcing the Hitlerian system. They were eventually victimized by the war, but they'd supported the man who started those wars. <br /><br />While there were genuinely innocent victims of Mao during the Cultural Revolution, more often than not, the so-called 'capitalist roaders' were actually communists who'd loyally served Mao and did his bidding in killing millions prior to the Cultural Revolution. <br />Killers got killed, oppressors got oppressed. Most of the victims were not 'Confucianists' but hardline communists who are not hardline enough in the eyes of Mao's rabid dogs. <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CitfXK_BvYpriss rulesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-23031825329935665632016-01-31T19:52:39.824-08:002016-01-31T19:52:39.824-08:00Stuart: We often compare today’s student radicals ...Stuart: We often compare today’s student radicals to the Red Guards who terrorized and nearly destroyed China between 1966 and 1976. When it comes to student radicals the Red Guards are the gold standard: the most violent, the most empowered, the most depraved. <br /><br />I'm too young to know about the Red Guard, but I wonder about the word "radical", does that word always imply violence? And who are "today's student radicals"? Are we talking about the Politically correct movement, with trigger warnings and 62 varieties of sexual gender?<br /><br />It looks like Activist is the preferred modern language, and we can start that in part by the black Civil Rights activists of the 1960's like MLK and his attempt at nonviolent passive resistance to segregation, although there were certainly violent counter-parts like the Black panthers, although all that is also before my time.<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_activism<br /><br />Modern student activism seems more like students taking over the Dean's office until a college makes some statement against their school clothes being made in sweatshops. Some of them have even been known to dump file cabinettes on the floor to show their seriousness.<br /><br />Or the recent Occupy Wallstreet movement after the 2008 financial crisis, and that was entertaining, with police refusing to help with crimes within the encampments while they carted in the homeless and druggies to encourage chaos, although it didn't need much help. I think the Occupy Foreclosures was a little more successful, especially when banks were too disorganized with their paperwork to legally claim their properties. It's interesting to see what happens when the system itself is chaos, it doesn't make much resistance to make trouble.<br /><br />So yes I'm sure the Red Guard of China would not be impressed by such efforts.<br /><br />Now the Western Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occuptation is a little more vigorous, but still hasn't hit a critical mass of support as the local town folks suggested they all go home, and even LaVoy Finicum's martyred death at the hands of the Beast hasn't yet generated the counter-revolutionary forces, but it might be simming before we really see how all sorts of greviances can all be collected together in a unified movement against federal authority.<br /><br />Apparently all this movement needs is a continued Democrat president, and the U.S. can soon go from 112 guns per capita to 1120 when we really need them. You have to think Obama is getting some sort of kickback into this action, although we also need periodic school shootings to make sure it continues. And forget the Socialists - Bernie likes guns, we need Hillary to continue this important work in scaring the American male to keep spending to keep the economy from crashing.<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country<br />http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/10/us/gun-sales-terrorism-obama-restrictions.html<br /><br />What we know for sure, is students generally don't like guns, and are happier to be peppersprayed to show their persecution than shot, and they like to say "hand up, don't shoot" to try to shame the police. Besides they have a lot of debt to pay off before they can afford to die.<br /><br />I'm not willing to bet where the new U.S. revolutionary forces will come. I sort of imagine the breaking point will be when the financial world gets their government representatives to reinstitute "debtors prisons" but considering we still have people robbing banks for $1 to go to prison to get a cancer treatment, we first need to make our prisons much less comfortable.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-38155276946715562812016-01-31T13:35:50.458-08:002016-01-31T13:35:50.458-08:00"Intellectuals", or those who think of t..."Intellectuals", or those who think of themselves that way, seem to be quite gullible and easily swayed by threats of force.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com