To: Ramsey Su who wrote (8299 ) 3/15/1999 12:34:00 PM From: Bosco Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Hi Ramsey, glad you got a laugh out of it <g>. Actually, my point was more than skin deep [um, soil deep <vbg>.] Instead of enunicating the obscure - and outdated - system of levy, my point was there is nothing new under the sun and all things come in cycles [apt for SI <g>?!] Those who learn to execute the strategy in the right place and time will be the heroes of the day. My sister, a Chinese history and economics teacher, told me that Mao learned all his skills from the "Ambition of the Tri-kingdom." If so, his holding to power was more than sheer luck or pure charisma. If we are to believe the new crop of Chinese leaders like Zhu who are beyond just a bunch of autocrats supported by the military, they will understand the genie is out of the bottle and they have to employ the best strategy. People like Zhu may not have read "Anatomy of A Revolution" or "The True Believer," but they understand human nature and mass movement intuitively, so long as they won't go off the the deep end.
