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                                              November 25, 2005

   
In Wells' "Outline of History",          
he engages in the usual rap    
about how the nature of the              
Chinese written language makes 
it difficult to be literate,           
and hence held back that       
civilization...  

But there is a
footnote attached
to it:

  The writer's friend, Mr. L.Y. Chen,
  thinks that this is only partially
  true.  He thinks that the emperors
  insisted upon a minute and rigorous
  study of the set classics in order
  to check intellectual innovation.
  This was especially the case with
  the Ming emperors, the first of
  whom, when reorganizing the
  examination system on a narrower
  basis, said definitely, "This will
  bring all the intellectuals of the
  world into my trap."  The Five
  Classics and the Four Books have
  imprisoned the mind of China.

                  -- p.171


       And what other traps have
       been imposed on us?

       What traps have we chosen?
 
                                       THE_SO_CALLED_HOAX
                                                                                       
                          HONEST_JOHN
                                                                    
                 DISSONANCE





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