Jonah has a terrific piece in the current NR on Thomas Friedman and his preference for the authoritarian decisiveness of Beijing over sloppy, messy multiparty democratic politics. But big government is always deforming, and in China it's so big it's deformed even basic biology, to the point that (as I've written many times before) its one-child policy
has led to the most gender-distorted cohort in human history. A new book, Message From An Unknown Chinese Mother by Xinran, sheds some light on what happens to those girls who aren't aborted:
She had lived and worked almost her entire life in orphanages, and told Xinran that little girls sometimes arrived there with scars between their legs. Oil lamps or candles had burned them.
'The first thing the village midwives did when the baby was born was not to clear its airway but to check [by the light of the lamp or candle] whether it was a boy or girl, because that was what the family wanted to hear. Some of the burns were on the baby’s private parts…'
When state-of-the-art totalitarianism meets primitive village culture, the result is industrial-scale depravity. These are the words of a young Chinese female university graduate:
Mother love is supposed to be such a great thing, but so many babies are abandoned, and it’s their mothers who do it. They’re ignorant. They feel differently about emotions from the way you do.
Where I come from, people talk about smothering a baby girl or just throwing it[!]into a stream … to be eaten by dogs, as if it were a joke. How much do you think these women loved their babies?
The idea that there are peoples who "feel differently" is anathema to the multicultural mind. It's why it cannot comprehend why Minnesota's "Somali-Americans" (heavy on the former, all but weightless on the latter) return to the Horn of Africa
for jihad. And why even the Pantybomber's intended victims think that everything would have been swell if they could have just sat down with him and talked about his feelings.
All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same unalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.
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I can understand the infatuation with big government. I think Jews lived so long in the Diaspora that we got used to the idea of big government being our only protection. Furthermore I think this was exaggerated by Reform Judaism that became infatuated with post modern thought and Hegelian nonsense.
ReplyDeleteI think it is sad that Kant managed to pull down the old rationalist school but did not build something better in its place. This left many Jews being influenced knowingly or unknowingly by Hegel and the infamous off shoot of Hegel (Marx)
You'd think the Chinese might have foreseen that this policy would leave them with a huge surplus of young men with scant prospects for normal married and family life.
ReplyDeleteOr then again, maybe they did. What do you do with a huge surplus of young single men?
"Or then again, maybe they did. What do you do with a huge surplus of young single men?"
ReplyDeleteSell them REAL DOLLS, made in the USA, and stream porn from satellites.
I was thinking more in terms of a very, very big standing army. But I like the real dolls and satelite porn idea better.
ReplyDeleteNo one,
ReplyDeleteLet me get this straight. You're blaming China on the Jews?
Mais naturellement.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, tomorrow is Purim, the celebration of the first shot at it.
what most humanitarian westerners who grew up in a society based in empathy and goodwill, a society that has those qualities becuase of JUDEOCHRISTIAN teachings dont get,
ReplyDeleteis that other societies are not equal.
multiculturalism along with leftism is crap. it will and has allready started working to destroy the value of an individual human life in western society.
it is the ever present barbarian wolf at the gates and at some point we decided it was the same as us and no threat.
now the wolf is eating our children and were perplexed....