We in the West ought to listen carefully and take advice from the lesson learned. Independent minds are few and far between in our society as people submit to a very similar mind-controlling which robs them of the ability to think logically and systematically.
Being in China today, walk in someone’s house: no art on the wall; few books in the house. People in China, and world still deprived and suffering from Cultural Revolution to this day. 😒
Most Chinese people seem to talk about the Cultural Revolution with no passion... like anthropologists examining their own Holocaust as a blip on the historical timeline. They have no problem being passionate about what the Japanese did to them.
It is always same strategy to have enemy in outside when the country have to keep in order. Nationalism is often times related from its economical condition. Same thing to the Culture Revolution. Scape goat. Unfortunately young Chinese people are more happy to point out Japan than thinking about current Chinese problem.
Similar to how many Westerners talk about dropping bombs in the Middle East, slavery of black Africans, imperialism, humiliating and forcing opium onto the Chinese population with little passion but have no problem being passionate about accusing others of "human rights violations" and "suppression of freedom".
Her was a very simplistic, very superficial view. For example, emerging from the Cultural Revolution, on the one hand, are leaders like President Xi Jinping who built up Modern China. On the other hand, also those who engage in continuingly smearing China.
Please enlighten me. How as this the lost generation when middle schools increased to almost double/tripled the amount. If they started at 11 years old and some as young as 8 to my findings they would still be old enough to attend school. The older part of this group 16- 18 yes, lost generation but didn't they begin working on factories. I feel this this is all sad due to lack of education. However, the life expectancy group. Women got equal rights for the most part. This has to been something. What film would you suggest about the revolution? Thanks for sharing.
What do you meant ? 11 years old at the start of the Cultural Revolution ini 1966 ? Meant born in 1955, but still can go to school in 1976 at the end of the Revolution you said ? That's very old to learn at the middle school. . The schools triples ? Whereas the teachers were targets of the Cultural Revolution, how could it be possible ? Maybe you meant after Mao's death and Deng Xiaoping rose to power then could schooling be started again ?!
From oppression comes freedom and enlightenment. Mao understood this. I would argue that but for the cultural revolution, we would not have seen the modern China of today. It is why India, absent such a period of turmoil, will never be able to progress into modernity. Mao was a tyrant, but he knew what he was doing...for the greater good.
Chinese killed more Chinese than Japanese killed Chinese in WWII! lesson is not about ethnicity/race/culture differences; is who is more evil? be it countryman or foreigners
@@Hystericall how to understand when human are so evil... mow, hitler, utin... anyone who has the power to kill n actual did it for his own so call ideology, all ebcoz of one's insatiable greed, power n ego.. all BS these so call leaders.. fxxking losers....
