Imagine going to school in a prison (no, your high school memories do not count).
Students attending university in China will not have to imagine, as that is exactly what awaits them, with many colleges are perpetuating Shanghai-style lockdowns as part of China’s Zero COVID protocols.
At the Jiaying University in southern Guangdong province, students are being barred from leaving the campus even on weekends, according to Zhong Yurou, an undergraduate student. She said the restrictions have wiped out almost all of their entertainment activities.
“We will have no delicious meals, no movies, and no other entertainment on weekends since none of these will constitute a proper reason for leaving the campus,” she said.
Zero COVID rules mean zero quality of life—even as there is zero hope of actually curtailing the spread of COVID within these schools.
Sophocles (not Euripedes) wrote in his play Antigone “Whom gods would destroy, they first make mad.” Xi Jinping, with his unbending insistence on Zero COVID, is quite mad, much to China’s eternal misfortune.
And university students all over the world are allowing themselves to be injected with the experimental 'vaccine' in order to go to school. These young people are supposedly our best and our brightest, and yet they are all sheep.
This is a characteristic of the Chinese culture that dates back to the first emperor of a unified China, Qin Shi Huang. He was a big proponent of the Legalist school of thought, and by imperial decree made Legalism the prevailing ideology over Confucianism.
A vast oversimplification of Legalism: the State is the ultimate arbiter of all things, including morals. Whatever the State says is right is right BECAUSE the State says so.
Mao Zedong was a HUGE fan of Qin Shi Huang and his Legalist methods.
Xi Jinping is a HUGE fan of Mao Zedong.
Legalism has been a driving force in the governing of China for as long as there's been a China.
This is what you get when you make the State the ultimate moral authority for all things.
(Side note on Qin Shi Huang: he was also a bloodthirsty tyrant whose dynasty lasted all of fifteen years before the Han Dynasty supplanted it. How did that happen? The Qin Dynasty lost the "Mandate of Heaven"--another subtle concept for which there is not nearly enough room in a comment to describe adequately)
True enough, but that's a different sort of legalism.
Legalism (法家) or "Fa Jia" is one of the six classical schools of Chinese Thought, and has been along with Confucianism been one of the two primary schools of thought pertaining to national governance.
As I've already stated, the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang was quite the fan of the Legalist school, so much so that he literally tried to ban Confucianism.
Moreover, Mao Zedong was an avowed and explicit fan of Qin Shi Huang and in particular his Legalist-inform methods of authoritarian rule, which Xi Jinping seems to at least channel if not share outright.
While Deng and the early post-Mao "reformers" of the CCP were far more prone to Confucianism, Legalist ideas and modes of governance have never been fully off the Chinese stage for over two millennia.
I understand the Chinese schools of thought and that the Legalism theory shouldn't be applied to US medical censureship , but I'm a simple American, I think in simple terms over short-term time frames, and to me, the tyranny of thought control, no matter how dressed up in theories, always boil down to absolute control, so the peons won't make "mistakes" because they don't allow themselves to think in extreme ways.
The establishment's staged "Covid pandemic" is causing people to lose their freedom!!!
Yikes...I will never complain about my high school experience again....lol!
And university students all over the world are allowing themselves to be injected with the experimental 'vaccine' in order to go to school. These young people are supposedly our best and our brightest, and yet they are all sheep.
How many thought bubbles in Chinese are saying this: "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
When will words become action?
Probably never.
This is a characteristic of the Chinese culture that dates back to the first emperor of a unified China, Qin Shi Huang. He was a big proponent of the Legalist school of thought, and by imperial decree made Legalism the prevailing ideology over Confucianism.
A vast oversimplification of Legalism: the State is the ultimate arbiter of all things, including morals. Whatever the State says is right is right BECAUSE the State says so.
Mao Zedong was a HUGE fan of Qin Shi Huang and his Legalist methods.
Xi Jinping is a HUGE fan of Mao Zedong.
Legalism has been a driving force in the governing of China for as long as there's been a China.
This is what you get when you make the State the ultimate moral authority for all things.
(Side note on Qin Shi Huang: he was also a bloodthirsty tyrant whose dynasty lasted all of fifteen years before the Han Dynasty supplanted it. How did that happen? The Qin Dynasty lost the "Mandate of Heaven"--another subtle concept for which there is not nearly enough room in a comment to describe adequately)
I am worried Canada might be the same thinking.....
Legalism is here in the US. Doctors losing their license over covid treatment.
True enough, but that's a different sort of legalism.
Legalism (法家) or "Fa Jia" is one of the six classical schools of Chinese Thought, and has been along with Confucianism been one of the two primary schools of thought pertaining to national governance.
https://www.e-ir.info/2018/07/03/confucianism-or-legalism-a-grand-debate-on-human-nature-and-economic-thought/
As I've already stated, the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang was quite the fan of the Legalist school, so much so that he literally tried to ban Confucianism.
Moreover, Mao Zedong was an avowed and explicit fan of Qin Shi Huang and in particular his Legalist-inform methods of authoritarian rule, which Xi Jinping seems to at least channel if not share outright.
While Deng and the early post-Mao "reformers" of the CCP were far more prone to Confucianism, Legalist ideas and modes of governance have never been fully off the Chinese stage for over two millennia.
I understand the Chinese schools of thought and that the Legalism theory shouldn't be applied to US medical censureship , but I'm a simple American, I think in simple terms over short-term time frames, and to me, the tyranny of thought control, no matter how dressed up in theories, always boil down to absolute control, so the peons won't make "mistakes" because they don't allow themselves to think in extreme ways.
Virtually all modes of authoritarian rule converge around those same basic ideas.
And by the same token, virtually all modes of libertarian thought can, in my view, be summarized by Judges 21:25 --
"In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes."
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+21%3A25&version=RSV