Yeah, it's kind of like if someone from another country did a sentimental film about the confederacy or something. Like Last Samurai really is a romanticized "lost cause" narrative. God, in a weird moment of anticipatory awfulness it even references effing Sparta FFS.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect and
It's like doing a movie about Qin Shi Huang saying that he was good, actually, because he unified ch...wait
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Replying to @Cybren @dreamingnoctis and
The funny thing is that's a take with a pedigree Like one of the artifacts of the Cultural Revolution that produced the most discussion among Western sinologists was this essay the government put out saying Confucius was Bad and Qin Shi Huang Good, Actually
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Wait why did the Maoists hate Confucianism
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Cybren and
Well because Confucius exemplified feudal values, obviously
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
But the... qin emperor... did not???
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Replying to @Cybren @Nymphomachy and
The article in question makes this whole argument about how even though Qin Shi Huang was no leftist, his authoritarian state was in fact a necessary progression in the dialectic of history as preached by Marx, to move forward from feudalism into a more liberated era
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
The whole thing is that Western scholars puzzled by why they'd bother saying this concluded this was, essentially, them being Very Online They knew that the Cultural Revolution was driving a lot of dissidents to say shit like "Mao is acting like the First Emperor"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
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Every Very Online discourse prior to the existence of the actual internet is basically this tweethttps://twitter.com/ArfMeasures/status/964607359489314816 …
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect and
I mean the various internecine conflicts of the first and second internationals were as Extremely Online as you can get in the 19th century
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Extremely Online is just how we talk today about what they used to call the "ivory tower" and such
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I just mean Marx and Engels ABSOLUTELY would have had a podcast where they trash people as neoliberals today even though one of them was literally a factory owning capitalist
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