03-23-2020, 07:09 PM
(03-23-2020, 06:05 AM)Blazkovitz Wrote:(03-23-2020, 05:19 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I doubt America can do anything. Chinese see themselves as the center of the world. A Chinese Awakening already has a foundation, the revival of Chinese culture. It is rich and spiritual, and would encourage more freedom as well. China had an organic view of the world based in Buddhism and Taoism and so is inherently subject to a spiritual revival. It seems to me that karate discipline is part of this. These traditions foster a value for life that an unjust tyranny does not support.
Traditional Chinese culture was always tyrannical, and Buddhism like Taoism cannot really challenge it because they are all about passive withdrawal. Karate / kung-fu is great as a sport and means of self-defence, but the philosophy attached to it is just Chinese, one cannot learn democracy at Shaolin where the master is always right.
The master is just the teacher; just like any teacher. I doubt that's anything to be concerned about. Buddhism and Taoism are great sacred treasures and sources of wisdom, and Gautama was the greatest psychologist who ever lived. China has always been an empire, that's right. It has also been racked by periodic tumultuous and deadly rebellions that happen when the empire loses the "mandate of heaven" and abuses the people.
An awakening of democracy such as happened in 1989 would be great, and its part of the worldwide revolution that China and all other nations cannot escape. Just as all nations also cannot escape the following two revolution cycles, the socialist and the green, and make progress by mixing and uniting them together. I just don't know what America can do, except to recover its own progress this decade and set a good example once again that the Chinese will want to copy and emulate. That means dumping Trump and electing presidents and congresses that the world can admire and that Americans can be proud of again.
