the miniseries the Three Body Problem starts out with the cultural revolution, where Mao instructed students to reject the past and punish their teachers.
actual photo in a meme: always remember.
In the 1980s, I worked with a Korean born American professor who went to China to help teach these students to try to restore what they should have learned during those years.
At the time of the cultural revolution, the US college students often believed this was a good thing: Only we Christians didn't believe the propaganda that was promoted by leftist groups in the colleges. You see, we had alternative sources of information via the missionaries working with refugees who tried to publicize the story knew what was going on.
If this sounds familiar, it is.
How many students in today's colleges know of this history? Why all the anti Hitler stuff but no one says Mao was a mass murderer. And why do students of today swallow the propaganda and lies of Hamas, when they make no secret that their ultimate plan is genocide of Israel and the west?
from the Atlantic 10 10 23:
Released on August 18, 1988, the original covenant spells out clearly Hamas’s genocidal intentions.
Accordingly, what happened in Israel on Saturday is completely in keeping with Hamas’s explicit aims and stated objectives. It was in fact the inchoate realization of Hamas’s true ambitions.
The most relevant of the document’s 36 articles can be summarized as falling within four main themes:
The complete destruction of Israel as an essential condition for the liberation of Palestine and the establishment of a theocratic state based on Islamic law (Sharia),
The need for both unrestrained and unceasing holy war (jihad) to attain the above objective,
The deliberate disdain for, and dismissal of, any negotiated resolution or political settlement of Jewish and Muslim claims to the Holy Land, and
The reinforcement of historical anti-Semitic tropes and calumnies married to sinister conspiracy theories.
Thus, as fighting rages in Israel and Gaza, and may yet escalate and spread, pleas for moderation, restraint, negotiation, and the building of pathways to peace are destined to find no purchase with Hamas. The covenant makes clear that holy war, divinely ordained and scripturally sanctioned, is in Hamas’s DNA.
that is why this sci fi series might teach students about what happens when evil takes over a mob who thinks they are making a utopia.
How many present day students who love Marxism and are ignorant of history will learn for the first time about one of Mao's many atrocities: not because they read it in the writings of those evil Republicans, but because a science fiction writer from China snuck it into his story of scientists and alien life:
I haven't watched or read the entire story, but the start of the novel tells of a girl whose father is killed by student mobs.
Later, she is assigned to work at a project looking for alien life, and one day she gets a signal from an unknown source looking to make contact and maybe send people there. But she also receives a warning from a dissadent there that the aim is to kill everyone and take over the land.
But the scientist instead sent a welcome signal to the aliens because she figured they couldn't be worse than the reality around her.
The film then goes on about the scientists who might stop them being killed and their work destroyed.
But don't ask me how it ends: I am only up to number 3 and am actually reading the book to fill me in on what I am not picking up from the fast moving plot.
Anyway, it is ironic that it is a film from a Chinese novel that might alert students in woke universities that their socialist utopias might not exist in real life, and about how students can easily be manipulated into destroying the good in the name of a nebulous utopia that will never exist.
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