I just remembered the Taiping Rebellion and if you're not familiar go read this immediately. It's the craziest shit most people in the West have never heard of https://smile.amazon.com/Autumn-Heavenly-Kingdom-China-Taiping/dp/0307472213 …
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Imagine if 19c USA used standardized tests to staff its ruling class. Some poor American would have been driven insane by it and started a mass cult to start an uprising that might have rivaled Mormonism and the US Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Xiuquan …pic.twitter.com/S2HhJ5vIYD
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The Taiping Rebellion is the sort of story where it goes "and then 10,000 people died. Ho hum. Then the next day..."
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