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Posted on Friday, 25 March 2011

The Taiping “Heavenly Kingdom”

historical mèmes:

  • appropriating convenient parts of a foreign, exotic religion for one’s own needs. Buddhism in USA over the last 25 years; Christianity in China 100 years ago.
  • sex is bad
  • smoking, drinking is bad
  • simplistic thinking [shared property === equality]
  • Animal Farm | idealistic rulers then abuse their power
  • stable, sophisticated culture vs. battle-hardened barbarian invaders
  • what makes a society rife for revolution: unmarried young men

6 notes

  1. redbeanice reblogged this from overseas-chinese-balloon and added:
    The heavy breathing in the background is kind of disturbing. :|
  2. overseas-chinese-balloon reblogged this from isomorphismes and added:
    not the same as cultural appropriation Christianity was pretty much pushed on the Chinese because they couldn’t stop...
  3. isomorphismes posted this