Hi Stitch - thanks for the kind words. In retrospect, maybe I only have myself to blame. I was trying to be didactic, but maybe it worked so well that it backfired and blew up in my face <SG>. I mean, I ve mellowed out alot in my old age and my youthful exuberance of toppling sacred cows is no more. I can still recall the horror shown on my friend's face when I told her of the tidbit about Thomas Jefferson plagiarizing John Locke's treatise [note: back then, plagiarism didn't exist, so no harm done. Besides, there is nothing new under the sun anyway, to claim a good idea proprietary is quite a new concept <VBG>.]
More to the point, it seems that holding sacred cows unique to one's own heritage is one of the possible underlying causes of miscommunication. I mean, thinking China, or even the PRC regime itself, a monolith is only good in the realpolitik arena. Like every deep culture, a civilization is based more on a pile of paper. I'll bet more Chinese, with a rudimentary understanding of history, associated themselves with Dr Sun Yet San's Three Principles of Democracy more than the little red book, which has been in defunct for more than 2 decades. But I digress.
Well, I guess I am like everyone else who is attracted to political sparring <VBG>. The problem is, unless we [as Americans] quickly separate the govt regime from the prevailing humanity, the following can happen, even here in the States, which I ve always considered as "the best of all possible worlds."
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