11-19-2019, 07:01 PM
** 19-Nov-2019 World View: China's 'Middle Kingdom' religious cult
As you know, I've spent thousands of hours studying Chinese history
going back millennia, and I've written thousands of articles and a
full length book.
So, Chinese history is drenched and permeated with this "Middle
Kingdom" concept -- there was the Kingdom of heaven, there was China
(the Middle Kingdom), and there were the barbarians (you and me and
the rest of the world). This is what I called a CCP "religious cult"
-- but not just since the CCP came to power, but back through every
government and every dynasty I've looked at for millennia.
So it's true that Japan and the Europeans are "racist," especially
during a generational Crisis era, but nothing like the Chinese
religious cult. The Chinese religious cult is poisonous, and is
nothing like anything I've seen in any other country.
Just to take one example, I've also written a full length book on
Iran, and Iran has had Persian empires going back for millennia, just
like China, but there is absolutely nothing in Iran's history that
even vaguely resembles the Chinese "Middle Kingdom" cult. You might
look at what's going on in Iran today, and you might call the Persians
"racist," and you might even say that since the 1979 civil war Iran
has had its own religious cult, but once again, there is nothing in
Iran like the Chinese "Middle Kingdom" religious cult that has
permeated Chinese culture, not just since 1979, not just for a
century, but for almost three millennia.
I haven't written a whole book on Japan or Korea, but I've analyzed
them for thousands of articles, and I can say with absolute certainty
that while each may be "racist" in its own way, neither culture
contains anything remotely like the poisonous cult culture that China
has had for millennia. It's no exaggeration to say that this
poisonous culture makes China both unique in history and extremely
dangerous.
(11-19-2019, 08:22 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: > The Japanese have at least as racist a view of their own
> superiority, which has been around for centuries at a minimum. It
> hasn't prevented them from integrating with the west in terms of
> international organizations.
> For that matter, the Europeans and European descended Americans
> have just as racist a view of their own superiority, with the
> assumption that western democracy is the one true way.
> On the other hand, the CCP isn't even one century old.
> So which one is the problem? Racism, which everyone has, even if
> they rarely recognize it in themselves, or the CCP as a
> quasireligious cult?
As you know, I've spent thousands of hours studying Chinese history
going back millennia, and I've written thousands of articles and a
full length book.
So, Chinese history is drenched and permeated with this "Middle
Kingdom" concept -- there was the Kingdom of heaven, there was China
(the Middle Kingdom), and there were the barbarians (you and me and
the rest of the world). This is what I called a CCP "religious cult"
-- but not just since the CCP came to power, but back through every
government and every dynasty I've looked at for millennia.
So it's true that Japan and the Europeans are "racist," especially
during a generational Crisis era, but nothing like the Chinese
religious cult. The Chinese religious cult is poisonous, and is
nothing like anything I've seen in any other country.
Just to take one example, I've also written a full length book on
Iran, and Iran has had Persian empires going back for millennia, just
like China, but there is absolutely nothing in Iran's history that
even vaguely resembles the Chinese "Middle Kingdom" cult. You might
look at what's going on in Iran today, and you might call the Persians
"racist," and you might even say that since the 1979 civil war Iran
has had its own religious cult, but once again, there is nothing in
Iran like the Chinese "Middle Kingdom" religious cult that has
permeated Chinese culture, not just since 1979, not just for a
century, but for almost three millennia.
I haven't written a whole book on Japan or Korea, but I've analyzed
them for thousands of articles, and I can say with absolute certainty
that while each may be "racist" in its own way, neither culture
contains anything remotely like the poisonous cult culture that China
has had for millennia. It's no exaggeration to say that this
poisonous culture makes China both unique in history and extremely
dangerous.
