Indirectly, Mao ended up killing more people than Hitler did (discounting WWII). Now, see, people WERE unhappy during the Great Leap Forward. Bu hui shuo Zhongguo hua, Zenme ke yi qu Zhongguo? As long as you're above the poverty line and as long as people around you have comparable wealth, income has very little impact on happiness.ĭui le, Dui le, wo hui jiang hanyu. Have you been to China? I spent 9 months there last year-and amazingly, they're just as happy as we are here.some more, some less. Gov't spending tripled during the Reagan years, the Soviets tried to match us-after Kennedy, they were pretty much doomed, but Reagan managed to expediate the process. We didn't win the Cold War through ideology or through flaws in communism. Uh-oh! You can't afford that! Better just keep building and let the standard of living plummet-can't show the world weakness or you'll get invaded, right? So you militarize, while still keeping the economy stagnant as a byproduct of opression. Shows of power are the only way such a government can support itself, and it doesn't help that you are invariably threatened by a very unhappy Western Hemisphere. However, in practice, the admirable goal of decreasing rivalry instead merely gets warped into a full-blown tyranny. In paper, this is needed to condition the people to live together without class rivalry (yes, people, class rivalry does exist today-90% of all crimes committed by blacks are against whites. What we ACTUALLY had was Totalitarian Socialism-the entire country and every aspect of it in the hands of the government, and the government entirely in the hands of a few. True Communism is enlightened anarchy-a perfect system, if it could be put in place. No, Communism failed because Communism never existed. In practice, although nobody technically "owns" anything, that doesn't stop people from actually owning things. ![]() If a country has an equal amount of wealth, and the wealth is evenly distributed, on the whole everyone should be happier but the top 5%. You see, there is NO reason why Communism could not work theoretically. People want to do what they are trained to want to do. People can be like that-during the Early Middle Ages, people tried to spend their entire lives slaving away for the common good of Christianity-and if that means slaughtering a few heathens here and there, so be it :p Surprisingly, many people DID wat to waste their lives slaving away for the common good of humanity. Read both my posts-if you took that seriously, you really need to wake up.Īnd so you're saying that everyone should be like JL? An egotistical, drug-addicted, lazy/uncreative (he didn't write a single original song for Sgt.Pepper) ex-hippie? We usually are so used to believing that imagining is to *construct* something but here he challenges us to imagine by *destructing* in the sense- imagine there’s NO heaven. This song is really about non-conformity. Sorry If I couldn’t explain properly but those were my thoughts. What John is basically saying is how people are so ready to label the different and uniques ones in the world as “crazy” and is saying he’s not the only dreamer, the only who’s calling him a dreamer is also a dreamer. It seems like he’s rallying for peace, but he’s not. “You may say I’m a dreamer”.was a bit harder to interpret (did it on acid though). People are so used to believe that heaven,religion,countries, are necessary for man to exist (Go and tell someone to think of a world without any countries or borders, 99% you get a flat out refusal that “it’s not possible”). “) and here is literally mocking conformity (which i hate too, hence this interpretation). ![]() And then the fuckin’ fans tried to beat me into being a fuckin’ Beatle or an Engelbert Humperdinck, and the critics tried to beat me into being Paul McCartney. But most of the time they were trying to beat me into being a fuckin’ dentist or a teacher. He’s also quite sarcastic, John Lennon hated conformity (“A couple of teachers would notice me, encourage me to be something or other, to draw or to paint– express myself. ![]() We usually are so used to believing that imagining is to construct something but here he challenges us to imagine by destructing in the sense- imagine there’s NO heaven. The way I know John’s character, he wrote his songs in a very simple- not so simple way and he would be laughing either way we interpret it (direct reference to I am the Walrus). I don’t know if this song is really about peace.
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