Another Washington Times piece got me thinking again.
The great betrayal: How the CCP humiliates China and blames the world – Washington Times
It’s probably lesson one in every politician’s playbook — “blame your enemies.” Sadly, this rule means that you can go farther in your career if you can keep the peoples’ eyes off of you and what you can actually do in office (that and “be outrageous” — a lesson we’re learning in earnest these days), and keep them on the bad stuff.
And that’s what the CCP does. Let’s face it — China has learned its lesson of humiliation, and now “it’ll be different.” They truly were one of the most incredible civilizations in world history at one time. Here’s just a short list of their discoveries:
- The iron plow
- The belt drive
- The stirrup
- The umbrella
- Matches
- Playing cards
- Zero and negative numbers
- Pi
- Compasses
- The rudder
- Gunpowder
- The flame thrower
- Multi-stage rockets (and rockets themselves)
They built the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, plus those terra cotta soldiers. I’ve seen these all with my own eyes and they’re incredible.
I love China. I want China and its people to succeed. I think they could really a great nation…but for one thing. Its government wants to take it back to the glory days, but this time they want to do it “right.” And if we anoint another emperor along the way? Well, what’s that to the peasants as long as we keep them happy.
Thing is, you can never keep an oppressed people happy, even if the oppression is “for their own good.” And here I hope the Chinese people wake up and somehow overcome the ever growing great wall of protective technology that their government is more than ready to use on them. They’ve just got to get out of that historical pattern where they’ve got to try an emperor (or warlord) every so often and see if they can make it work this time. Emperors are not a good thing (nor warlords especially) in the long run. The US actually got this part right when hey launched a new nation — freedom produces flourishing, and the Chinese people need it as much as any other people in the world. If they can figure that out, they could be the next great civilization.
