FlyingSpagtiMonster2012-02-22 10:59:30回复悄悄话
In China, we are free to discuss the old enemies of the regime. In US, Nazis and Commies are 100% evil. Who are brain-washed?
hotpepper2012-02-22 05:39:08回复悄悄话
Mao and Hitler were the same from historic perspective, both seeked absolute power. Mao was even worse as he targeted his own people.
megchen2012-02-21 20:27:28回复悄悄话 George Orwell is my favorite English writer besides Oscar Wilde.
His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice…(wiki)
Allow me use his two quotes to match your post. Thanks for sharing!
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Harry S Truman
33rd president of US (1884 - 1972)"
造出很多名词,是西方文明的特点,就一本"圣经"就有分出那么多教派,"旧约"太血腥,就有"新约"出世,犹太教后, 有基督教的天主教,天主教分出东正教,1000 年的宗教 迫害(公元476年 -- 1453年)后分出了新教(现在大多美国人信奉的,也是很多中国人查经的教派), 二战时, 本质是基督教的德国人迫害犹太教的犹太人, 又造出了"法西斯主义".
这很象自然界的"壁虎断尾求生"的现象, 致命部分自己砍掉,保住本命-- 基督教的排他和一神.
将来还会为"同性恋"等圣经所不允许的行为再来一次次 ""壁虎断尾求生"吗?
教皇千年后的道歉是来了,被灭绝的印加人, 残存的印地安人, 那无数绝望的黑奴的眼睛,早已经随风而去,反正人人有罪性,让上帝去最后审判吧, 况且死去的只是异教徒.
我不能被说服,我却可以被搞糊涂, 反正无妨,脚已经踏在西方土地,先享受它体面发达的物质生活吧.
当今世界上有一个金太阳。几十年前有一个永远不落的毛太阳。TMD, 这个世界上到底有几个太阳!这两个太阳先搞个清楚。
为了避免引起误会,我想明确地告诉你:我不属于喜欢这类风格的人之列。
我中学时是班长兼文艺体育委员,大学时是团总支宣传委员。如果我告诉你当年我上高中和大学期间,即使当袁伟民带领女排夺得三连冠时,我也从未与为此叫过一声好,尽管我也与大家一起看比赛。如果你相信我说的这个事实,你也许会把我判为冷酷或冷血的动物之类。
我的快乐和痛苦不由外部决定,而是源自自身心灵深处。
邪恶和正义皆出自人的心灵深处。只要有人的地方便有邪恶和正义的较量,无论东方或西方,无论南方或北方。差别只在于你是否认识什么是邪恶,什么是正义。
德国犹太人一定不是德国人,不是德国的own people,对吧?现在地球上某个国家四处侵略杀人,一定杀的不是地球人,这些被杀的人一定不是我们地球人的own people,是吧?
希特勒德国四处侵略并且搞种族仇杀,非常像地球上的某个国家,四处侵略,并且对原主民搞种族仇杀,但某些人选择性失明,骂前者,却忽略后者,根本原因是一个失败了,一个胜利了。对失败者踏上一只脚的同时,手捧胜利者的臭脚,是某些华人的真实写照
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---不过--搞社会主义就会失败---
George Orwell is my favorite English writer besides Oscar Wilde.
His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice…(wiki)
Allow me use his two quotes to match your post. Thanks for sharing!
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George Orwell