Mao's Great Cultural Revolution was primarily a disaster, but it had one good idea. All of the elites: doctors, lawyers, merchants, intellectuals had, from time to time, to go and live with, work with, and share the hardships of the peasants. Bravo!
Can you imagine that now? Bankers, professors, politicians, lawyers, businessmen, the whole polluted crew having to eat bad food, work long hours, get dirty, have no cell phones, internet, etc. Half of them would die or go mad, neither a bad thing.
Doubtful, but we can hope.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." »» Thomas Jefferson
spoken like an english prof who gardens .... does my installing doors and doing household home improvements count as dabbling with the masses?
ReplyDeletewoody the woodpecker
Spoken like an English prof who survived the jungle.
Deleteyour Jefferson quote ,, he made that statement before he became president,, never mentioned it again
ReplyDeletewoody
But he meant it and it remains true.
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