something has happened to China |
| Published: May 19, 2008, 12:19 pm |
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Confucious says: he who engages in Greatest Intellectual Struggle of Our Time ends up thinking like commissar: They laughed and clapped as Brecht eviscerated the corruptions of the market economy and traditional morality, and managed to look knowing without appearing to know anything. "Don't they get it?" I thought as I watched them. "Don't they know what happened?" After the closing lines, it seemed the cast was determined to shake them out of their suspended disbelief or wilful ignorance. An actor stepped forward. "Something has happened to China," he began. For a second I thought he was going to say that Brecht had got what he wanted and communism had happened to China. The tens of millions of dead in the Great Leap Forward, the murdered intellectuals of the Cultural Revolution, the enforcement on a whole people of the idolatrous worship of a smirking tyrant had happened. You can just see him, can't you? Sitting there with a litle cloud over his head, his arms folded: half [ Full article ] |
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